September 16, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Trump on the death of Robert Redford & the take over of Gaza
- Pandering to cities & phone updates
- Drug war with Venezuela & Christmas is coming
- The guys get a present
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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 Katty, I'm strong
and Jackie and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Robert Redford passed away today here all wow, I mean
very way betters home.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, that's a good way to go.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I guess, but I'll say Robert Redford was great.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He had a he had.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
A series of years that he was.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
There was nobody better. This happened. I guess, huh, Well.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Did you call him sleep?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well what movie would you say?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
You like?
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Invest it?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
But do you have a lot of them?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Honestly, he made I'd say he made seven or eight
great movies.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They were really great. There was a period of time
when he was the hottest. I thought he was great.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
If you're wondering what that was, that was the President
of the United States reacting to the news that eighty
nine year old Robert Redford movie star had died.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
That's what that was, right, which was probably have a
little value to anyone. Loving tribute there from the Chief Executive.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
The most interesting thing to us was, first of all,
people love symmetry. That's one of the things about Robert
Redford that made him so famous.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
He was really.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Handsome, handsome devil, no doubt, and people really love Syboty.
He had the best symmetry. What it was interesting to Hanson,
I is that so Trump's getting ready to get on
the helicopter to go to the plane to go to
England for a big state dinner with the Prime Minister
and the King, and apparently hadn't heard the news that
Robert Redford died. And Trump's kind of famously always got
(01:42):
Fox News on, and Fox News with its elderly audience,
like all cable news channels is going big on Robert
Redford dying, right, And I just thought it was interesting
that he hadn't flipped on the news at all.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Today. Well, he's busy packing money. I feel like I've
forgotten something. What should I What do I gotta remember?
I I just have that feeling I forget all right?
Do you have a pair of shorts if it's hot? Yes?
Do you have a jacket? Yes? What if we decided
to go swimming, did you bring your trunks? Did you
remember your pills and your toiletries? Yes? Anyway, I'm sure
(02:14):
as people. Do you have a phone charger? You never packed.
Chargers always end up buying more charge. That's the phone charger,
right right, right, right, thanks right. Anyway, On a more
serious note, Oh, I was here is going to be
my transition. I know I had a transition. I just
forgot to transition. I'm transitioning. You need to go to
a transition repair shop.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I was reading in the Mark Helper newsletter today the
take on the whole Israel invading Gaza. Today, Israel launches
ground offensive in Gaza. That's the breaking news on ABC
right now. As I look at the television, man, Gaza
is rubble. Look at that now, this is before the
invasion starts. Yes, it's rubble.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
The take on the newsletter from Mark helpern today was
Trump does not like bb much. They have, according to
lots of reports, had a full on yelling match a
week or so ago. That was after Bibe struck the
Hamas leaders in Qatar. Yeah, and Trump was really happy,
unhappy about it, and actually was yelling at him on
(03:18):
the phone what the hell you doing. But according to
the reporting today, Trump dislikes Hamas more than he dislikes Biebe,
So he ain't gonna say a word about this.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Interesting so Israel launched long anticipated ground offensive into Gaza City.
According to the Israeli government, began with a heavy bombardiment
in what's called the most populous area where Hamas is
preventing civilians from evacuating yesterday.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
And then there's this angle that you brought up yesterday
that we'll have to get into more.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I've got it ready to go you and commission concludes
Israel committing jenocide and Gaza. They're going with that headline
still on CNN as that report came out. Yester, you
brought that up, right, So this is going to be
a long, bitter fight, no doubt, to mop up the
rest of Hamas As. Marco Rubio has been saying, I
don't think we have that clip, but I just started
(04:13):
a few minutes ago. He said, we would absolutely prefer
peace talks and a settlement that included the return of
all of the hostages, living and deceased, and Hamas laying
down its arms. We are absolutely ready for those peace talks.
(04:34):
But then he's made it clear as if he needs
to that Hamas has no interest in that none whatsoever.
They don't want peace now, They didn't want it a
year ago. They don't want it one hundred years from now,
you fools. Anyway, moving along, I have a number of
headlines about Israel Hamas the conflict. Was trying to come
up with a good name for the featurette, like we've
(04:55):
got the China Cabinet or gender bending Madness Update, but
everything we came up with sounded loathsome you can't say
Jews News. No, well you did just then, but no,
you certainly don't want to brand the futurette with that. Anyway.
Here's a quick update. Gaza City Council member Anwaratala fled
(05:16):
Gaza with his family, while Hamas Minister Mohammad Madoon and
his family, plus the head of Hamas's Foreign Affairs and
Security Committee and also unpronounceable head of hamasa's Government Committee,
have requested permission to leave Gaza for themselves or their families,
requested that of the Israeli authorities. While Hamas prevents average
(05:40):
civilians from leaving Gaza City physically with guns preventing them
from evacuator.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
And Egypt and Jordan won't allow anybody out of there either.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Right because we don't want him in our country, our
Muslim country right next door. Because they're crazy and dangerous.
Right then this I mentioned this briefly yesterday reporting in
the Free Beacon. You remember when the International Association of
Genocide Scholars passed a resolution declaring that Israel is committing
a genocide. This organization, all it takes is paying dues.
(06:14):
There are no requirements of expertise. You've got to occasionally
write something about genocide. And all it takes to pass
a resolution is you have to have a quorum of
more than twenty percent of people whose dues are up
to date. And it doesn't mean anything. It's a bunch
of leftist scholars.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Right but it well, it means this you get to
have like it's on CNN right now. You and commission
concludes Israel committing genocide, they will have no guests on today.
Pushing back on that no zero, no, no, And then
this charm is started. Not committing a genocide by practically
any definition that is used internationally, right.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Right then, this charming story, also from the Free Beacon. Abuho,
a Beta who spent nearly twenty years as a spokesman
for Hamas's military wing before Israel eliminated him a couple
of weeks ago. Week and a half ago, oversaw a
propaganda network of more than one thousand operatives who worked
directly with the terror group's military units across Kaza to
control messaging and orchestrate psychological warfare. The operatives act as
(07:19):
operational documenters within Hamas's military units, using go pros and
camera kits to capture and then distort battleground footage. Army
radio correspondent Doron Kadash reported, according to a translation by
Google Translate, each military unit hosts a propaganda department that
edits field footage into videos. As operatives monitor Israeli media
(07:40):
to tailor Hamas's messaging. Abu Obeeda personally stage managed hostages
on what they would say and how they would be
filmed in videos. The propaganda chief attended the hostage release
ceremonies in the latest release Deeel, where he quote this
is all quotes from Hamas brief the hostages before they
went on stage what to say and what to do.
(08:00):
He was also involved in Hamas's battle plans, scheming to
use quote global awareness and influence to dissuade Israel from
launching an offensive to take control of Gaza City. Quote.
He planned to do this through psychological terror attacks that
would make use of the hostages. This goes on and on.
It outlines and we'll post a link at Armstrong and
Getty dot com exactly how Hamas's propaganda wing works and worked,
(08:27):
and how they are utterly acutely aware that propaganda is
their most powerful weapon against Israel. That's why they're so
good at it. And then final note, do you know
who Elliott Abrams is? He's a think tank guy. Now
he's served in senior foreign policy roles in three different
Republican administrations, focusing on the Middle East, Latin America, and
(08:50):
the US Israel relationship. He is a pro Israel, no doubt.
But he published an essay in Mosaic magazine headlined it
never will be a Palestinian state, So what's next? And
so this publication interviewed him. The upshot of your piece
(09:10):
is that the Palestinian leadership doesn't actually want a state.
You've worked on Middle East diplomacy for a long time.
When did you come to this conclusion? And he says,
after they rejected Ahudo's twenty eight offer two thousand and eight,
I hated his offer, which would have abandoned Jerusalem, and
thought it would never get cabinet or kannesse At approval.
But even that offer was rejected by the Palestinians. God,
(09:31):
I don't remember that they were going to give up Jerusalem. Yeah, wow,
what took you so long? If it was eight I
never dealt with Arafat, but I thought things might work
out better, much better when he was dead. He died
in Lato four and nothing changed. So I drew conclusions.
They asked you said, you came to the conclusion there
would never be a Palestinian state. Inaight, But you wrote
this seventeen years later. Why the delay? I've been saying it.
(09:54):
That article is not the first time I told the
Obama transition team in late eight that Makmudabas of the
Palestinian authority would never never say yes to anything. But
I admit I've been clearer as the years have gone. Bye.
That's because the sickness in Palestinian society, I think, has
become clearer and clearer. You say Palestinian leaders don't want
a state. What's the strongest evidence for your view? Partition
(10:17):
into two states is an old idea, going back to
the British a century ago, and then the un nineteen
forty seven, though it would have created a tiny Israel,
designists accepted it. They desperately wanted a state. The Palestinians
have always said no after World War One, after World
War Two, then to Clinton and Bush and Obama. Instead,
they have always chosen war and terrorism. Their goal has
(10:37):
been destroying Israel, not building a state on their own.
And then he asks about macrone and Keir Starmer and
the Australians and Canadians all recognizing Palestinian state. You argue,
this never would have happened in absentth the October seventh attacks.
Why the October seventh attacks aroused a kind of bloodlust
and many Muslim populations, and among many left wing groups,
(10:58):
they've cheered Hamasan and the call Israel's war against a
mos genocide. These politicians, and he names them, are catering
to domestic audiences, giving them the rhetoric they want. You
think you think McCrone came out and said it recognized
a Palestinian state because of the Muslim population in his
country to a large extent. Yeah, wow, yeah, and to
hold off his left too, because it's well, I'll finish
(11:20):
Abram's answer, then I'll I'll give you my own opinion. Uh,
this recognition of a Palestinian state that does not exist
is pure theater and it does not help one single Palestinian.
It comes in reaction to this unbelievably brutal attack on
Israel and assault on Israel for defending itself. You know,
I almost can sympathize with that.
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Speaker 7 (12:46):
We're out of time for this segment about I was
just thinking, you know, if I'm a cron or a starmer,
what harm does it do. I recognize a Palestinian state
that shuts up everybody to my left. It's never gonna happen.
So what you know, I didn't do any damage. It's
like you say, you recognize the Kingdom of Atlantis. Okay,
super If your kid says I want to be a cowboy,
(13:08):
want to grow up, okay, cool, that's an honorable profession, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
There's no downside. Oh that was flippant. More on the
way stay here.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Of course, Detroit has some of the best nicknames out there.
There's the Motor City, There's Motown, the three one three, Detroit,
rock City, and the d.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Just be careful when you google that last one.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Okay, listen, I've been learning so much about your incredible city.
For instance, I found out that Detroit is actually a
French word meaning suck at Chicago.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I know.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
That's a very clever way to completely pander to your audience.
It sounds like he was doing a live show in
Detroit for some reason.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I don't know why, but yeah, my god, I'm pander
doll audiences all over this country and I don't pander
to anybody like a pander did Detroit.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Yeah, that's funny. We make that joke a lot. And
I remember the first time I ever heard that. I
was probably I don't know, first concert I ever went to,
like fifteen years old. Yes, and whoever I was saying,
I think the rock group Sticks. Yes, in Salina, Kansas,
and of all places they said, we have toured all
over this country.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Were in Chicago last night, We're going to Boston tomorrow.
It's slide is the best town we've ever played in.
Every night, nobody rocks like Salina. Yes, Mark Town is
better than we am rock better than everybody. Wow, I
none other than Sticks. I knew we were cool, Yes,
and I am embarrassed that I just fully embraced it
and believe it's just what is the message from that
(14:56):
children are stupid? That's what the messages were. Of course
most of the people there were adults, and they cheered too.
They should have known better. Yeah, they should have rolled
their eyes. It's like we always say in show business,
there are three levels of respect. There is plainly having
no respect for you. There is pretending to have respect
for you. Then there's actual respect, and often level two
(15:19):
is as good as it gets. So you take it.
Styx was pretending to have respect for you exactly. And
your rockingness who on.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
The show has downloaded the new operating system for Apple
that just came out. Anybody iOS twenty six you would
know if you did, because it is the biggest change
they've made maybe in the history of the iPhone. According
to really Yours, Yeah, Iowa's twenty six. They're calling it
the latest one. Mostly you have is eighteen something. They
jumped from eighteen something to twenty six. It's like when
Microsoft Windows came out. Remember in Windows ninety five, if
(15:53):
you're old enough, Because it was such a big renovation,
they just named it Windows ninety five.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, and that's way. This one is iOS twenty six, So.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I have the option to do it, should I or
know you can.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Actually a lot of the reviewers said, maybe put it
off until they work out the bugs, but I haven't
come across the bugs.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But anyway, it's a completely different look.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
It's a liquid look, and everything looks like it's kind
of underwater and everything like that. And then there's a
whole bunch of new features on absolutely everything. I mean,
I'm not doing doing a paid commercial here, but everything
is different. Camera, email, really, voicemail, texting, everything is is different.
Not completely different, but a lot different. So I'm just
(16:32):
warning you if you do that one, it's a there's
a learning curve. You pick up your phone and everything
you want to do it's going to be different. So
iOS now, iOS twenty six just came out yesterday. That
is an interesting thing about the modern world, though, is
that you're you know, I've got I've had the same
phone now for what two years, and all of a
sudden it can become a different thing because something over
(16:55):
the internet came. Just like my Tesla car, you can
be all of a sudden, oh the rearview mirror thing
is over here now. The way you turn up the
our heater is over here now, I mean, just things
get adjusted. Does Elon want you to have her rexa
you buy another one?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I don't know. I mean trying to fight. Like when
you rent a car, you're trying to figure out how
the hell do I you just the mirror? Why isn't
it right there? And you're looking around, You're looking at
traffic on or to turn on the radio?
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Good lord? Oh yeah, that's a fight you rent a car.
Although when we are when land in Wichita with my kids,
turn on the radio. I finally figured out how to
turn the radio on. First voice I hear is mine
because we're on a radio station in Wichita. I really
enjoyed that, and the kids thought it was fantastic. So
really gave me a boost of optimism.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Wichita, where our stunning rise to mediocrity began true years
and years ago. Yes, now we are in the twilight
of our mediocre career. What are you enjoying it? What
was the important thing I was planning to get to it?
Don't even remember?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
You got a couple of scumbags that are going to
be in courtrooms today, both murderers who think political violence
is a good idea.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
We will see how the country reacts to that.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
You got cash Petello, the FBI facing questions right now
there from Congress, and of course the Democrats are going
to try to beat them up.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
If anything good comes out of that, we'll tell you
about it. Plus, you received a lovely gift. I demand
you open it. Okay, do it this half hour we'll
all find out together. Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Coming up probably next hour and hour three. We'll get
to this piece in the Wall Street Journal from Walter
Russell Meade that I really liked a week that shook
the world order, and he goes through a number of
things that have happened in recent days and goes with
the famous quote attributed to Lenin. There are decades when
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nothing happens, and weeks when decades happened. Last week was
one of those weeks, John Lennon, Vladimir Lenin v I Lenin, Ah, sorry,
but yeah. If you look at the laundry list of things,
it all occurred last week. There's a lot there that's
all about how the world order is changing before our
(19:01):
very eyes, and the biggest part of it is the
West seems to have no interest in pushing back against that.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So we'll talk about that an hour three. I'm not
sure the West has the spine and muscles to do
it anymore.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
If you're a drug runner and you make your living
in a boat near Venezuela, hmm, I think you should
learn to code or something, do something different. Anyway, here's
here's the latest on that story.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
US military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela,
killing three aboard. The attack comes two weeks after another
military strike on a drug carrying speedboat from Venezuela. Moments ago,
the President assured reporters there is evidence this new strike
took out Narco terrorists.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well, we have to if we have to do is
look at the cargo that was like it spattered all
over the ocean, big bags of cocaine and fented all
all over the place, and it was Plus we have
recorded evidence that they were We've recorded them.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They're very careful because we know you people would be
after us. We're very careful.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Administration calling the strikes necessary to stem the flow of
drugs into the United States. Several senators, Democrats and Republicans
have indicated their dissatisfaction with the administration's rationale and questioned
the legality of the action.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Yeah, before we get into that, here's a little bit
of ABC's version of that story.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
President Trump released this video, which he said shows another
US military strike in international waters targeting narco terrorists from Venezuela.
Trump announced the strike, which he said killed three people, saying, quote,
be warned, if you are transporting drugs that can kill Americans,
we are hunting you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's interesting. So that's the thing.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Now, if you are trying to get drugs in the
United States, we will kill you from the sky.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
That is constitutionally, legally an interesting question. It is not
self evident that that's okay. I want it to be okay,
you do well, I want to stop drug runners and
narco terrorists, which I think is a reasonable enough term.
(21:12):
I just because, well, because you could extend that authority
to a number of other crimes against the people of
the United States, and summary, well, did I executions is
a little uncomfortable about free society. Maybe I blanked out.
(21:33):
Are you arguing for this or against this? I'm saying
I'm not satisfied that it's okay, oh, okay, okay, I'm misunderstood.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
It's an academic because where does it go next step?
I mean, if we can obliterate drug runners. Yeah, and
because we assume your drug runners, you know, there wasn't
a trial or anything, we think you're drug runners and
that you were sending the drugs in the United States.
As rand Paul made the point the other day, he said,
you know, they used drugs and lots of countries in
South America. They could have been taking these on a
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boat somewhere else. Do we get to kill them too,
which is a good.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Question, it's a reasonable question.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
And uh, and you know, how about people are trafficking
humans into America. You're cartels who are just they're they're
trafficking the whole illegals thing. We snuffed them from the sky.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I would prefer we didn't. Or bank robbers or whatever else. Yeah,
I and this is pretty well established. But I would
love to see a return to much more traditional policies
about hard drugs instead of this idiotic, self defeating We're
(22:43):
gonna make it as easy as possible to be a
junkie policies, especially in blue cities, that reminds me return
to bust people for possession of hard drugs, bust them
for public use, bust them for sleeping in the park.
Vagrancy is not inevitable. Go to London.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
So I've mentioned a couple of times the Bill Maher
Charlie Cook podcast that he Cook or Kirk.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
God dang it, I hope.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Charlie Cook's wife doesn't listen to this show. Charlie Kirk
was assassinated last week. There is another pundit named Charlie Cook.
But Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And he was on Bill
Maher's Basement Show. If you don't know that show, you
know his HBO show that he does real time every
Friday night. But he also just occasionally goes down in
the basement and talks to people and it's just a
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camera in the corner and the only people in there
are him and the other person, and it's all kinds
of different people, musicians, actors, whatever. And he had Charlie
Kirk on just four months ago and they talked for
like two hours and it's a great conversation.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's worth watching. If you search Charlie Kirk on YouTube,
you'll come across it. But one of the things that
came up was they got into like Bill Maher's trying
to say's like, so does it bother you if I drink?
And Charlie Kirk said, no, I don't care. Get as
drunk as you want. It doesn't make any difference to me.
And Bill Maher said, so you're not a you don't
(24:12):
want to stop me from drinking or he said no,
I don't care what you do. I don't think you know.
I don't think it's good for me. I think it's
not good for a lot of people. But you can
do whatever you want.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
And then they got onto pot, and Charlie Kirk also said,
I don't want kids doing it. It's a legal a
lot of states. I'd rather it wasn't, but I don't
care if you smoke pot.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
So they went further down the road of the pot
conversation and Bill Maher said, he said, I go to
lots of parties in Hollywood, and.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
He said none of the young people there smoke pot. Oh.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Charlie Kirk said, I think it's led to a lot
more people smoking pot because it's legalized. And I don't
think that's good. And Bill Maher said, I don't know
statistically if that's.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
True or not.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
He said, my own personal experience is going to parties
in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
People aren't smoking pot anymore. All the young people, none
of them are smoking pot. He said, they're all doing
hard drugs. Oh boy. And I thought what he said, Now,
that's just my anecdo Lebanan's. But he said, all the
young people they want the they want the hard stuff, wow,
not alcohol or pot. And I thought, that's the opposite
of what I assumed was happening. Wow.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
And I wouldn't know. He would know better than me.
I'm not going to Hollywood parties full of young up
and cover. He's saying, they're all nepple babies, they're all
rich trust fund people and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
But if those are the those busy that night, you
don't want to go to that. Uh No, that sounds awful.
I mean, I'd go to observe, but I wouldn't like
it very much. It's a trip to the human zoo. Yeah,
I wouldn't like.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I enjoy a whole bunch of rich young people who
think they you know, they were they born on third
base and think they hit a triple that crowd out of.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Their minds on drugs. Great, But how interesting is that
that the young, rich crowd doing hard drugs. I thought
that that.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Was over just from stuff i'd read, because anything could
be laced with ventanyl.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Now, if that's true, then.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
It doesn't change the constitution any but it makes the
argument for stopping hard drugs getting into this country. It
helps make that argument.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
In what way that it's okay to blow people up
in boats or no.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
No, I said, it doesn't change the constitution, but the
need to stop hard drugs getting in this country. I
didn't think normal people were doing hard drugs anymore because
of that thing. We quote from the Atlantic all the time.
The day of doing those drugs is over because everything
could be laced with fentanyl. There's no such thing as
safe use of any kinds of you know.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Hard drugs. Yeah, so I thought that word got out
and people weren't doing it. That's how naive I am. Right. Yeah,
I'm not in that culture obviously, but yeah, I'm surprised
to hear that's it's bad. I've got to admit, I'm
all for a secure border and vigorous enforcement of drug
laws and prosecution, criminal blah blah blah. But I've always
(27:03):
found it a very very powerful argument when other governments say, look, yeah,
we'll help you with the criminals in our country, but
y'all have such a voracious appetite for drugs, that's the problem.
Don't pretend that it's our problem. It's your problem. Do
we have a more voracious appetite for drugs than other places? Yeah?
(27:23):
I think so. Then why affluence? Because we got money? Yeah,
we got money, Yeah exactly. Yeah, in other countries, you
can't be walking around wasted. You get fired from your
job at a second, and there's no class action lawsuits
against getting fired from your job in rural Mexico.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
We're doing the weave here as we go from topic
to topic. Yes, I mentioned I was listening to this
podcast with a Telegraph reporter about the trouble Great Britain's
in economically, politically, everything else. They're way worse, same problems
we've got. They're just ahead of us. We should keep
an eye on them. There canary in the coal mine.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
But he brought up about how much more wealthy the
average person is the United States is then in England,
and how we don't know that.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Uh, but we are so much richer the average person.
It's amazing that we spend so much time on inequality
and how tough it is in America. Everything like no
more way wealthier than our British cousins. In terms of
our people, people are middle class in most countries.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Size of house, number of cars, electronics, vacations, eating out.
How do we convince people though you've got it good,
Quod acting like you're getting screwed all the time. Well,
and not only that, but if we go with the
socialist prescription for society, we will soon be like Britain
(28:52):
in France. Absolutely, we're the pie. Just shrinks and shrinks
and shrinks. Don't shrink my pie.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I know it, full possibility. I got I got a
question for you, Katie. I want you to be ready
for this. I'm gonna do a poll of people on
the show right after then you got to open your present.
I oppens is killing me. Okay, So we got several
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Speaker 7 (30:11):
It's good to be right. I have a present in
front of me that I'm about to open. Butt I
want everybody to tell me what their first emotional reaction
is to this statistic. I'm about to hit you with Katie, Michael, Joe,
and I won't have time for the president. It's got
to be next segment. You don't think we'll have time
for both of these?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Yes, okay, Well, I don't know what's in the box,
and you do know it's in the box. Yes, okay,
Christmas is one hundred days from today. Was your immediate
reaction positive ish or negative?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Ish?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Katie?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
It was os. I didn't realize it was that close ish,
So it.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Was negative ish, Yes, Michael probably negative? Yeah, Joe negative
because my wife is flashing by it a horrifying.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Right, negative because of mortalent. Yes, Hanson negative or positive.
Hanson's doesn't listen to the show. He's listening to Howard Stern. Okay,
we don't know what. How we don't know what.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And my my immediate reaction was negative. Isn't that interesting
that everybody had a negative reaction. That's that's terrible. Yes,
it's terrible. So well of the night, then the best,
the best days of the years, or diseased, it's unholy,
it's regrettable, or we've done something to put pressure on
ourselves or something that everybody's first reaction to Christmas is
hunder Day's ways. Oh no, half is it? Hanson said,
he's joyful to say. You know, Hanson's the guy that
(31:32):
went Christmas shopping in February of last you know, he's
all set putting aside mortality. I'm fine with it, just fine,
partly because my kids are grown.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
That's yeah, you don't have the you don't have My
wife and I we just you could ignore it. She
wants something, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's
a little different. But when your kids were younger, your
reaction would have been, oh boy, oh.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
My gosh, the things we have to get. Yeah, okay,
I'll open my president among other things on the way.
Stay here.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Barty made it very clear that we have differences, but
I also believe that he brings a sense of optimism
in the can do spirit, a positivity that I believe
our city needs at this time.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
New York Governor Kathy Hulkel on the defensive, responding to
critics after endorsing New York Democratic mayoral candidate Jaron mam Donnie.
Even though she admits they're not always on the same page.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
I do not agree with many of his views, but
running a state government or a city government is very different.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
It's about making sure that the.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
Garbage gets picked up, the streets are safe.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
Wow, the democratic governor of New York has endorsed the
communist soon to be mayor of New York City. She's
just trying to endorse the person that's going to win.
That's what she's doing. He's gonna win.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, But it's the left. The center left even gets
away with associating with the far left in a way
that a conservative politician never could. And I'm fine with that.
But we went over the Democratic Socialists of America. They
want to end free markets, they want the nationalization of
all industry. They want to free all the prisoners and
(33:15):
the police, open the borders, legalize hard drugs, and open prostitution.
They're in. They're communists, which kills hundreds of millions of people.
But a governor of a state can say, yeah, I'm
endorsing him. I mean, that's a kin to endorsing it
actual Nazi. Yeah, that is something. Okay, So I got this,
(33:39):
we got this box. You got a box two? I did?
You got a box? You open yours already. I think
they were afraid I'd feel left out if they didn't
give me. What should I say? Who it's from? Uh? No,
just open it? Okay. I got a pocket knife from
Santa Claus. I carry a knife, so I take a
my pocket knife. I cut the tape. I carry a
(34:01):
taser because he carries a knife. I'm ready for it.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Bring a knife to a taser fight. It's Chicago, Okay.
Opening the box. There is a lot of cardboard fluff, yes,
which is bad for the environment. There are a number
of things in here. Sierra trail bites, okay, peanut butter, prunes.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Okay, prunes, there you go, dates, prunes, almonds. Okay, grab
the hat. Grab the hat. That'll make it all clear. Okay, okay,
the hat first.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
The California Prune Company or society, Yes, California Prunes. Heard
me talking about my problems, Yes, my problems.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
That's funny.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
My brother sent me a text yesterday said I have
a personal question for you. I had no idea what
he was going to say, and he said, what is it?
And he said, how many prunes are you taking a
day right now?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I am at four.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
I think I've found the magic number four seems to
be the magic number. If I make four prunes per day,
I'm as regular as you know the trains. There you go,
Thank you California Prunes.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Oh yeah, several different snacks in there the hat. I
haven't been this excited since the California Butter queens stopped
by the studio, and that is fantastic. I've lobbied us
to eat butter.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
I've probably done more for prunes than anybody has done
in quite some time. Yeah, since Abe the Goda on
some sitcom in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Wow, talking about obscure references, obscurious. I'm going to wear
this hat.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Yes, I will definitely wear this hat around the prune hat.
And like I have said several times, obviously I'm not
trying to get a date, or I would not be talking.
I need to eat prunes all day long to make
myself regular.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
They had a slogan back in the day, the funny
fruit or the I can't remember. You must be old
if you need this? Is that their slogan. No as
well be there trying to soft pedal that. I think.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Is it the natural way to go?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
That's a good one.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
I don't know if that was their slogan. But that's
a good slogan, the natural way to go.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
That is great. So the fantastic the I too will
wear the hat with pride. The the paper of record,
the New York Times making a horrible, egregious mistake in
covering the Charlie Kirk assassination and the aftermath, plus also
in the New York Times. What's with all the beards?
(36:32):
This appears to be I think the fourth, the fourth
great period of beardedness. There have been four. Oh, there
have been four great beard movements in history. We are
currently in the fifth.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Yeah, and we there's a decent chance we'll have a
president with a beard. I'm surprised Gavin hasn't grown a
beard yet.
Speaker 9 (36:55):
Me.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
She can. If you had jd.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Vance running against Pete Buddha Edge, you'd have two weird
guys running against each other.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Uh. Whatever significance that is. His radical progressive wife probably
feeds him estrogen to eliminate any chance of toxic masculinity.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
I want to talk about that remaking of the world
order from the Wall Street Journal. That's really interesting an
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Robert Redford passed away today here all wow, I mean
very way betters home.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, that's a good way to go.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I guess, but I'll say Robert Redford was great.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He had a he had.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
A series of years that he was.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
There was nobody better. This happened. I guess, huh, Well.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Did you call him sleep?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well what movie would you say?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
You like?
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Invest it?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
But do you have a lot of them?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Honestly, he made I'd say he made seven or eight
great movies.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They were really great. There was a period of time
when he was the hottest. I thought he was great.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
If you're wondering what that was, that was the President
of the United States reacting to the news that eighty
nine year old Robert Redford movie star had died.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
That's what that was, right, which was probably have a
little value to anyone. Loving tribute there from the Chief Executive.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
The most interesting thing to us was, first of all,
people love symmetry. That's one of the things about Robert
Redford that made him so famous.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
He was really.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Handsome, handsome devil, no doubt, and people really love Syboty.
He had the best symmetry. What it was interesting to Hanson,
I is that so Trump's getting ready to get on
the helicopter to go to the plane to go to
England for a big state dinner with the Prime Minister
and the King, and apparently hadn't heard the news that
Robert Redford died. And Trump's kind of famously always got
(01:42):
Fox News on, and Fox News with its elderly audience,
like all cable news channels is going big on Robert
Redford dying, right, And I just thought it was interesting
that he hadn't flipped on the news at all.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Today. Well, he's busy packing money. I feel like I've
forgotten something. What should I What do I gotta remember?
I I just have that feeling I forget all right?
Do you have a pair of shorts if it's hot? Yes?
Do you have a jacket? Yes? What if we decided
to go swimming, did you bring your trunks? Did you
remember your pills and your toiletries? Yes? Anyway, I'm sure
(02:14):
as people. Do you have a phone charger? You never packed.
Chargers always end up buying more charge. That's the phone charger,
right right, right, right, thanks right. Anyway, On a more
serious note, Oh, I was here is going to be
my transition. I know I had a transition. I just
forgot to transition. I'm transitioning. You need to go to
a transition repair shop.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I was reading in the Mark Helper newsletter today the
take on the whole Israel invading Gaza. Today, Israel launches
ground offensive in Gaza. That's the breaking news on ABC
right now. As I look at the television, man, Gaza
is rubble. Look at that now, this is before the
invasion starts. Yes, it's rubble.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
The take on the newsletter from Mark helpern today was
Trump does not like bb much. They have, according to
lots of reports, had a full on yelling match a
week or so ago. That was after Bibe struck the
Hamas leaders in Qatar. Yeah, and Trump was really happy,
unhappy about it, and actually was yelling at him on
(03:18):
the phone what the hell you doing. But according to
the reporting today, Trump dislikes Hamas more than he dislikes Biebe,
So he ain't gonna say a word about this.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Interesting so Israel launched long anticipated ground offensive into Gaza City.
According to the Israeli government, began with a heavy bombardiment
in what's called the most populous area where Hamas is
preventing civilians from evacuating yesterday.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
And then there's this angle that you brought up yesterday
that we'll have to get into more.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I've got it ready to go you and commission concludes
Israel committing jenocide and Gaza. They're going with that headline
still on CNN as that report came out. Yester, you
brought that up, right, So this is going to be
a long, bitter fight, no doubt, to mop up the
rest of Hamas As. Marco Rubio has been saying, I
don't think we have that clip, but I just started
(04:13):
a few minutes ago. He said, we would absolutely prefer
peace talks and a settlement that included the return of
all of the hostages, living and deceased, and Hamas laying
down its arms. We are absolutely ready for those peace talks.
(04:34):
But then he's made it clear as if he needs
to that Hamas has no interest in that none whatsoever.
They don't want peace now, They didn't want it a
year ago. They don't want it one hundred years from now,
you fools. Anyway, moving along, I have a number of
headlines about Israel Hamas the conflict. Was trying to come
up with a good name for the featurette, like we've
(04:55):
got the China Cabinet or gender bending Madness Update, but
everything we came up with sounded loathsome you can't say
Jews News. No, well you did just then, but no,
you certainly don't want to brand the futurette with that. Anyway.
Here's a quick update. Gaza City Council member Anwaratala fled
(05:16):
Gaza with his family, while Hamas Minister Mohammad Madoon and
his family, plus the head of Hamas's Foreign Affairs and
Security Committee and also unpronounceable head of hamasa's Government Committee,
have requested permission to leave Gaza for themselves or their families,
requested that of the Israeli authorities. While Hamas prevents average
(05:40):
civilians from leaving Gaza City physically with guns preventing them
from evacuator.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
And Egypt and Jordan won't allow anybody out of there either.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Right because we don't want him in our country, our
Muslim country right next door. Because they're crazy and dangerous.
Right then this I mentioned this briefly yesterday reporting in
the Free Beacon. You remember when the International Association of
Genocide Scholars passed a resolution declaring that Israel is committing
a genocide. This organization, all it takes is paying dues.
(06:14):
There are no requirements of expertise. You've got to occasionally
write something about genocide. And all it takes to pass
a resolution is you have to have a quorum of
more than twenty percent of people whose dues are up
to date. And it doesn't mean anything. It's a bunch
of leftist scholars.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Right but it well, it means this you get to
have like it's on CNN right now. You and commission
concludes Israel committing genocide, they will have no guests on today.
Pushing back on that no zero, no, no, And then
this charm is started. Not committing a genocide by practically
any definition that is used internationally, right.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Right then, this charming story, also from the Free Beacon. Abuho,
a Beta who spent nearly twenty years as a spokesman
for Hamas's military wing before Israel eliminated him a couple
of weeks ago. Week and a half ago, oversaw a
propaganda network of more than one thousand operatives who worked
directly with the terror group's military units across Kaza to
control messaging and orchestrate psychological warfare. The operatives act as
(07:19):
operational documenters within Hamas's military units, using go pros and
camera kits to capture and then distort battleground footage. Army
radio correspondent Doron Kadash reported, according to a translation by
Google Translate, each military unit hosts a propaganda department that
edits field footage into videos. As operatives monitor Israeli media
(07:40):
to tailor Hamas's messaging. Abu Obeeda personally stage managed hostages
on what they would say and how they would be
filmed in videos. The propaganda chief attended the hostage release
ceremonies in the latest release Deeel, where he quote this
is all quotes from Hamas brief the hostages before they
went on stage what to say and what to do.
(08:00):
He was also involved in Hamas's battle plans, scheming to
use quote global awareness and influence to dissuade Israel from
launching an offensive to take control of Gaza City. Quote.
He planned to do this through psychological terror attacks that
would make use of the hostages. This goes on and on.
It outlines and we'll post a link at Armstrong and
Getty dot com exactly how Hamas's propaganda wing works and worked,
(08:27):
and how they are utterly acutely aware that propaganda is
their most powerful weapon against Israel. That's why they're so
good at it. And then final note, do you know
who Elliott Abrams is? He's a think tank guy. Now
he's served in senior foreign policy roles in three different
Republican administrations, focusing on the Middle East, Latin America, and
(08:50):
the US Israel relationship. He is a pro Israel, no doubt.
But he published an essay in Mosaic magazine headlined it
never will be a Palestinian state, So what's next? And
so this publication interviewed him. The upshot of your piece
(09:10):
is that the Palestinian leadership doesn't actually want a state.
You've worked on Middle East diplomacy for a long time.
When did you come to this conclusion? And he says,
after they rejected Ahudo's twenty eight offer two thousand and eight,
I hated his offer, which would have abandoned Jerusalem, and
thought it would never get cabinet or kannesse At approval.
But even that offer was rejected by the Palestinians. God,
(09:31):
I don't remember that they were going to give up Jerusalem. Yeah, wow,
what took you so long? If it was eight I
never dealt with Arafat, but I thought things might work
out better, much better when he was dead. He died
in Lato four and nothing changed. So I drew conclusions.
They asked you said, you came to the conclusion there
would never be a Palestinian state. Inaight, But you wrote
this seventeen years later. Why the delay? I've been saying it.
(09:54):
That article is not the first time I told the
Obama transition team in late eight that Makmudabas of the
Palestinian authority would never never say yes to anything. But
I admit I've been clearer as the years have gone. Bye.
That's because the sickness in Palestinian society, I think, has
become clearer and clearer. You say Palestinian leaders don't want
a state. What's the strongest evidence for your view? Partition
(10:17):
into two states is an old idea, going back to
the British a century ago, and then the un nineteen
forty seven, though it would have created a tiny Israel,
designists accepted it. They desperately wanted a state. The Palestinians
have always said no after World War One, after World
War Two, then to Clinton and Bush and Obama. Instead,
they have always chosen war and terrorism. Their goal has
(10:37):
been destroying Israel, not building a state on their own.
And then he asks about macrone and Keir Starmer and
the Australians and Canadians all recognizing Palestinian state. You argue,
this never would have happened in absentth the October seventh attacks.
Why the October seventh attacks aroused a kind of bloodlust
and many Muslim populations, and among many left wing groups,
(10:58):
they've cheered Hamasan and the call Israel's war against a
mos genocide. These politicians, and he names them, are catering
to domestic audiences, giving them the rhetoric they want. You
think you think McCrone came out and said it recognized
a Palestinian state because of the Muslim population in his
country to a large extent. Yeah, wow, yeah, and to
hold off his left too, because it's well, I'll finish
(11:20):
Abram's answer, then I'll I'll give you my own opinion. Uh,
this recognition of a Palestinian state that does not exist
is pure theater and it does not help one single Palestinian.
It comes in reaction to this unbelievably brutal attack on
Israel and assault on Israel for defending itself. You know,
I almost can sympathize with that.
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Speaker 7 (12:46):
We're out of time for this segment about I was
just thinking, you know, if I'm a cron or a starmer,
what harm does it do. I recognize a Palestinian state
that shuts up everybody to my left. It's never gonna happen.
So what you know, I didn't do any damage. It's
like you say, you recognize the Kingdom of Atlantis. Okay,
super If your kid says I want to be a cowboy,
(13:08):
want to grow up, okay, cool, that's an honorable profession, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
There's no downside. Oh that was flippant. More on the
way stay here.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Of course, Detroit has some of the best nicknames out there.
There's the Motor City, There's Motown, the three one three, Detroit,
rock City, and the d.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Just be careful when you google that last one.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Okay, listen, I've been learning so much about your incredible city.
For instance, I found out that Detroit is actually a
French word meaning suck at Chicago.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I know.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
That's a very clever way to completely pander to your audience.
It sounds like he was doing a live show in
Detroit for some reason.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I don't know why, but yeah, my god, I'm pander
doll audiences all over this country and I don't pander
to anybody like a pander did Detroit.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Yeah, that's funny. We make that joke a lot. And
I remember the first time I ever heard that. I
was probably I don't know, first concert I ever went to,
like fifteen years old. Yes, and whoever I was saying,
I think the rock group Sticks. Yes, in Salina, Kansas,
and of all places they said, we have toured all
over this country.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Were in Chicago last night, We're going to Boston tomorrow.
It's slide is the best town we've ever played in.
Every night, nobody rocks like Salina. Yes, Mark Town is
better than we am rock better than everybody. Wow, I
none other than Sticks. I knew we were cool, Yes,
and I am embarrassed that I just fully embraced it
and believe it's just what is the message from that
(14:56):
children are stupid? That's what the messages were. Of course
most of the people there were adults, and they cheered too.
They should have known better. Yeah, they should have rolled
their eyes. It's like we always say in show business,
there are three levels of respect. There is plainly having
no respect for you. There is pretending to have respect
for you. Then there's actual respect, and often level two
(15:19):
is as good as it gets. So you take it.
Styx was pretending to have respect for you exactly. And
your rockingness who on.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
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Microsoft Windows came out. Remember in Windows ninety five, if
(15:53):
you're old enough, Because it was such a big renovation,
they just named it Windows ninety five.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, and that's way. This one is iOS twenty six, So.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I have the option to do it, should I or
know you can.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Actually a lot of the reviewers said, maybe put it
off until they work out the bugs, but I haven't
come across the bugs.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But anyway, it's a completely different look.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
It's a liquid look, and everything looks like it's kind
of underwater and everything like that. And then there's a
whole bunch of new features on absolutely everything. I mean,
I'm not doing doing a paid commercial here, but everything
is different. Camera, email, really, voicemail, texting, everything is is different.
Not completely different, but a lot different. So I'm just
(16:32):
warning you if you do that one, it's a there's
a learning curve. You pick up your phone and everything
you want to do it's going to be different. So
iOS now, iOS twenty six just came out yesterday. That
is an interesting thing about the modern world, though, is
that you're you know, I've got I've had the same
phone now for what two years, and all of a
sudden it can become a different thing because something over
(16:55):
the internet came. Just like my Tesla car, you can
be all of a sudden, oh the rearview mirror thing
is over here now. The way you turn up the
our heater is over here now, I mean, just things
get adjusted. Does Elon want you to have her rexa
you buy another one?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I don't know. I mean trying to fight. Like when
you rent a car, you're trying to figure out how
the hell do I you just the mirror? Why isn't
it right there? And you're looking around, You're looking at
traffic on or to turn on the radio?
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Good lord? Oh yeah, that's a fight you rent a car.
Although when we are when land in Wichita with my kids,
turn on the radio. I finally figured out how to
turn the radio on. First voice I hear is mine
because we're on a radio station in Wichita. I really
enjoyed that, and the kids thought it was fantastic. So
really gave me a boost of optimism.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Wichita, where our stunning rise to mediocrity began true years
and years ago. Yes, now we are in the twilight
of our mediocre career. What are you enjoying it? What
was the important thing I was planning to get to it?
Don't even remember?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
You got a couple of scumbags that are going to
be in courtrooms today, both murderers who think political violence
is a good idea.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
We will see how the country reacts to that.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
You got cash Petello, the FBI facing questions right now
there from Congress, and of course the Democrats are going
to try to beat them up.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
If anything good comes out of that, we'll tell you
about it. Plus, you received a lovely gift. I demand
you open it. Okay, do it this half hour we'll
all find out together. Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Coming up probably next hour and hour three. We'll get
to this piece in the Wall Street Journal from Walter
Russell Meade that I really liked a week that shook
the world order, and he goes through a number of
things that have happened in recent days and goes with
the famous quote attributed to Lenin. There are decades when
(18:39):
nothing happens, and weeks when decades happened. Last week was
one of those weeks, John Lennon, Vladimir Lenin v I Lenin, Ah, sorry,
but yeah. If you look at the laundry list of things,
it all occurred last week. There's a lot there that's
all about how the world order is changing before our
(19:01):
very eyes, and the biggest part of it is the
West seems to have no interest in pushing back against that.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So we'll talk about that an hour three. I'm not
sure the West has the spine and muscles to do
it anymore.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
If you're a drug runner and you make your living
in a boat near Venezuela, hmm, I think you should
learn to code or something, do something different. Anyway, here's
here's the latest on that story.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
US military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela,
killing three aboard. The attack comes two weeks after another
military strike on a drug carrying speedboat from Venezuela. Moments ago,
the President assured reporters there is evidence this new strike
took out Narco terrorists.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well, we have to if we have to do is
look at the cargo that was like it spattered all
over the ocean, big bags of cocaine and fented all
all over the place, and it was Plus we have
recorded evidence that they were We've recorded them.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They're very careful because we know you people would be
after us. We're very careful.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Administration calling the strikes necessary to stem the flow of
drugs into the United States. Several senators, Democrats and Republicans
have indicated their dissatisfaction with the administration's rationale and questioned
the legality of the action.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Yeah, before we get into that, here's a little bit
of ABC's version of that story.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
President Trump released this video, which he said shows another
US military strike in international waters targeting narco terrorists from Venezuela.
Trump announced the strike, which he said killed three people, saying, quote,
be warned, if you are transporting drugs that can kill Americans,
we are hunting you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's interesting. So that's the thing.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Now, if you are trying to get drugs in the
United States, we will kill you from the sky.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
That is constitutionally, legally an interesting question. It is not
self evident that that's okay. I want it to be okay,
you do well, I want to stop drug runners and
narco terrorists, which I think is a reasonable enough term.
(21:12):
I just because, well, because you could extend that authority
to a number of other crimes against the people of
the United States, and summary, well, did I executions is
a little uncomfortable about free society. Maybe I blanked out.
(21:33):
Are you arguing for this or against this? I'm saying
I'm not satisfied that it's okay, oh, okay, okay, I'm misunderstood.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
It's an academic because where does it go next step?
I mean, if we can obliterate drug runners. Yeah, and
because we assume your drug runners, you know, there wasn't
a trial or anything, we think you're drug runners and
that you were sending the drugs in the United States.
As rand Paul made the point the other day, he said,
you know, they used drugs and lots of countries in
South America. They could have been taking these on a
(22:02):
boat somewhere else. Do we get to kill them too,
which is a good.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Question, it's a reasonable question.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
And uh, and you know, how about people are trafficking
humans into America. You're cartels who are just they're they're
trafficking the whole illegals thing. We snuffed them from the sky.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I would prefer we didn't. Or bank robbers or whatever else. Yeah,
I and this is pretty well established. But I would
love to see a return to much more traditional policies
about hard drugs instead of this idiotic, self defeating We're
(22:43):
gonna make it as easy as possible to be a
junkie policies, especially in blue cities, that reminds me return
to bust people for possession of hard drugs, bust them
for public use, bust them for sleeping in the park.
Vagrancy is not inevitable. Go to London.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
So I've mentioned a couple of times the Bill Maher
Charlie Cook podcast that he Cook or Kirk.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
God dang it, I hope.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Charlie Cook's wife doesn't listen to this show. Charlie Kirk
was assassinated last week. There is another pundit named Charlie Cook.
But Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And he was on Bill
Maher's Basement Show. If you don't know that show, you
know his HBO show that he does real time every
Friday night. But he also just occasionally goes down in
the basement and talks to people and it's just a
(23:36):
camera in the corner and the only people in there
are him and the other person, and it's all kinds
of different people, musicians, actors, whatever. And he had Charlie
Kirk on just four months ago and they talked for
like two hours and it's a great conversation.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's worth watching. If you search Charlie Kirk on YouTube,
you'll come across it. But one of the things that
came up was they got into like Bill Maher's trying
to say's like, so does it bother you if I drink?
And Charlie Kirk said, no, I don't care. Get as
drunk as you want. It doesn't make any difference to me.
And Bill Maher said, so you're not a you don't
(24:12):
want to stop me from drinking or he said no,
I don't care what you do. I don't think you know.
I don't think it's good for me. I think it's
not good for a lot of people. But you can
do whatever you want.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
And then they got onto pot, and Charlie Kirk also said,
I don't want kids doing it. It's a legal a
lot of states. I'd rather it wasn't, but I don't
care if you smoke pot.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
So they went further down the road of the pot
conversation and Bill Maher said, he said, I go to
lots of parties in Hollywood, and.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
He said none of the young people there smoke pot. Oh.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Charlie Kirk said, I think it's led to a lot
more people smoking pot because it's legalized. And I don't
think that's good. And Bill Maher said, I don't know
statistically if that's.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
True or not.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
He said, my own personal experience is going to parties
in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
People aren't smoking pot anymore. All the young people, none
of them are smoking pot. He said, they're all doing
hard drugs. Oh boy. And I thought what he said, Now,
that's just my anecdo Lebanan's. But he said, all the
young people they want the they want the hard stuff, wow,
not alcohol or pot. And I thought, that's the opposite
of what I assumed was happening. Wow.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
And I wouldn't know. He would know better than me.
I'm not going to Hollywood parties full of young up
and cover. He's saying, they're all nepple babies, they're all
rich trust fund people and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
But if those are the those busy that night, you
don't want to go to that. Uh No, that sounds awful.
I mean, I'd go to observe, but I wouldn't like
it very much. It's a trip to the human zoo. Yeah,
I wouldn't like.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I enjoy a whole bunch of rich young people who
think they you know, they were they born on third
base and think they hit a triple that crowd out of.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Their minds on drugs. Great, But how interesting is that
that the young, rich crowd doing hard drugs. I thought
that that.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Was over just from stuff i'd read, because anything could
be laced with ventanyl.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Now, if that's true, then.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
It doesn't change the constitution any but it makes the
argument for stopping hard drugs getting into this country. It
helps make that argument.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
In what way that it's okay to blow people up
in boats or no.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
No, I said, it doesn't change the constitution, but the
need to stop hard drugs getting in this country. I
didn't think normal people were doing hard drugs anymore because
of that thing. We quote from the Atlantic all the time.
The day of doing those drugs is over because everything
could be laced with fentanyl. There's no such thing as
safe use of any kinds of you know.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Hard drugs. Yeah, so I thought that word got out
and people weren't doing it. That's how naive I am. Right. Yeah,
I'm not in that culture obviously, but yeah, I'm surprised
to hear that's it's bad. I've got to admit, I'm
all for a secure border and vigorous enforcement of drug
laws and prosecution, criminal blah blah blah. But I've always
(27:03):
found it a very very powerful argument when other governments say, look, yeah,
we'll help you with the criminals in our country, but
y'all have such a voracious appetite for drugs, that's the problem.
Don't pretend that it's our problem. It's your problem. Do
we have a more voracious appetite for drugs than other places? Yeah?
(27:23):
I think so. Then why affluence? Because we got money? Yeah,
we got money, Yeah exactly. Yeah, in other countries, you
can't be walking around wasted. You get fired from your
job at a second, and there's no class action lawsuits
against getting fired from your job in rural Mexico.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
We're doing the weave here as we go from topic
to topic. Yes, I mentioned I was listening to this
podcast with a Telegraph reporter about the trouble Great Britain's
in economically, politically, everything else. They're way worse, same problems
we've got. They're just ahead of us. We should keep
an eye on them. There canary in the coal mine.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
But he brought up about how much more wealthy the
average person is the United States is then in England,
and how we don't know that.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Uh, but we are so much richer the average person.
It's amazing that we spend so much time on inequality
and how tough it is in America. Everything like no
more way wealthier than our British cousins. In terms of
our people, people are middle class in most countries.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Size of house, number of cars, electronics, vacations, eating out.
How do we convince people though you've got it good,
Quod acting like you're getting screwed all the time. Well,
and not only that, but if we go with the
socialist prescription for society, we will soon be like Britain
(28:52):
in France. Absolutely, we're the pie. Just shrinks and shrinks
and shrinks. Don't shrink my pie.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I know it, full possibility. I got I got a
question for you, Katie. I want you to be ready
for this. I'm gonna do a poll of people on
the show right after then you got to open your present.
I oppens is killing me. Okay, So we got several
things word from our.
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Speaker 7 (30:11):
It's good to be right. I have a present in
front of me that I'm about to open. Butt I
want everybody to tell me what their first emotional reaction
is to this statistic. I'm about to hit you with Katie, Michael, Joe,
and I won't have time for the president. It's got
to be next segment. You don't think we'll have time
for both of these?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Yes, okay, Well, I don't know what's in the box,
and you do know it's in the box. Yes, okay,
Christmas is one hundred days from today. Was your immediate
reaction positive ish or negative?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Ish?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Katie?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
It was os. I didn't realize it was that close ish,
So it.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Was negative ish, Yes, Michael probably negative? Yeah, Joe negative
because my wife is flashing by it a horrifying.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Right, negative because of mortalent. Yes, Hanson negative or positive.
Hanson's doesn't listen to the show. He's listening to Howard Stern. Okay,
we don't know what. How we don't know what.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And my my immediate reaction was negative. Isn't that interesting
that everybody had a negative reaction. That's that's terrible. Yes,
it's terrible. So well of the night, then the best,
the best days of the years, or diseased, it's unholy,
it's regrettable, or we've done something to put pressure on
ourselves or something that everybody's first reaction to Christmas is
hunder Day's ways. Oh no, half is it? Hanson said,
he's joyful to say. You know, Hanson's the guy that
(31:32):
went Christmas shopping in February of last you know, he's
all set putting aside mortality. I'm fine with it, just fine,
partly because my kids are grown.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
That's yeah, you don't have the you don't have My
wife and I we just you could ignore it. She
wants something, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's
a little different. But when your kids were younger, your
reaction would have been, oh boy, oh.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
My gosh, the things we have to get. Yeah, okay,
I'll open my president among other things on the way.
Stay here.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Barty made it very clear that we have differences, but
I also believe that he brings a sense of optimism
in the can do spirit, a positivity that I believe
our city needs at this time.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
New York Governor Kathy Hulkel on the defensive, responding to
critics after endorsing New York Democratic mayoral candidate Jaron mam Donnie.
Even though she admits they're not always on the same page.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
I do not agree with many of his views, but
running a state government or a city government is very different.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
It's about making sure that the.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
Garbage gets picked up, the streets are safe.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
Wow, the democratic governor of New York has endorsed the
communist soon to be mayor of New York City. She's
just trying to endorse the person that's going to win.
That's what she's doing. He's gonna win.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, But it's the left. The center left even gets
away with associating with the far left in a way
that a conservative politician never could. And I'm fine with that.
But we went over the Democratic Socialists of America. They
want to end free markets, they want the nationalization of
all industry. They want to free all the prisoners and
(33:15):
the police, open the borders, legalize hard drugs, and open prostitution.
They're in. They're communists, which kills hundreds of millions of people.
But a governor of a state can say, yeah, I'm
endorsing him. I mean, that's a kin to endorsing it
actual Nazi. Yeah, that is something. Okay, So I got this,
(33:39):
we got this box. You got a box two? I did?
You got a box? You open yours already. I think
they were afraid I'd feel left out if they didn't
give me. What should I say? Who it's from? Uh? No,
just open it? Okay. I got a pocket knife from
Santa Claus. I carry a knife, so I take a
my pocket knife. I cut the tape. I carry a
(34:01):
taser because he carries a knife. I'm ready for it.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Bring a knife to a taser fight. It's Chicago, Okay.
Opening the box. There is a lot of cardboard fluff, yes,
which is bad for the environment. There are a number
of things in here. Sierra trail bites, okay, peanut butter, prunes.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Okay, prunes, there you go, dates, prunes, almonds. Okay, grab
the hat. Grab the hat. That'll make it all clear. Okay, okay,
the hat first.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
The California Prune Company or society, Yes, California Prunes. Heard
me talking about my problems, Yes, my problems.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
That's funny.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
My brother sent me a text yesterday said I have
a personal question for you. I had no idea what
he was going to say, and he said, what is it?
And he said, how many prunes are you taking a
day right now?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I am at four.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
I think I've found the magic number four seems to
be the magic number. If I make four prunes per day,
I'm as regular as you know the trains. There you go,
Thank you California Prunes.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Oh yeah, several different snacks in there the hat. I
haven't been this excited since the California Butter queens stopped
by the studio, and that is fantastic. I've lobbied us
to eat butter.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
I've probably done more for prunes than anybody has done
in quite some time. Yeah, since Abe the Goda on
some sitcom in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Wow, talking about obscure references, obscurious. I'm going to wear
this hat.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Yes, I will definitely wear this hat around the prune hat.
And like I have said several times, obviously I'm not
trying to get a date, or I would not be talking.
I need to eat prunes all day long to make
myself regular.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
They had a slogan back in the day, the funny
fruit or the I can't remember. You must be old
if you need this? Is that their slogan. No as
well be there trying to soft pedal that. I think.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Is it the natural way to go?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
That's a good one.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
I don't know if that was their slogan. But that's
a good slogan, the natural way to go.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
That is great. So the fantastic the I too will
wear the hat with pride. The the paper of record,
the New York Times making a horrible, egregious mistake in
covering the Charlie Kirk assassination and the aftermath, plus also
in the New York Times. What's with all the beards?
(36:32):
This appears to be I think the fourth, the fourth
great period of beardedness. There have been four. Oh, there
have been four great beard movements in history. We are
currently in the fifth.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Yeah, and we there's a decent chance we'll have a
president with a beard. I'm surprised Gavin hasn't grown a
beard yet.
Speaker 9 (36:55):
Me.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
She can. If you had jd.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Vance running against Pete Buddha Edge, you'd have two weird
guys running against each other.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Uh. Whatever significance that is. His radical progressive wife probably
feeds him estrogen to eliminate any chance of toxic masculinity.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
I want to talk about that remaking of the world
order from the Wall Street Journal. That's really interesting an
hour three, among other things. If you're missing anything, get
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