October 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The government shutdown
- The dumbest movie Jack has ever seen
- National Guard headed to clean Portland up
- Joe does some construction
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Negotiations are ongoing, but it appears that both sides are
unwilling to budge. Democrats are still demanding inclusions of tax
credits for Obamacare subsidies. They're also requiring that the President
not recent changes to appropriations moving forward, also known as recisions.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Okay, so Joe explained this last week, I have not
paid any attention to the whole shutdown thing. I promised
myself a long time ago that I was not going
to spend any of my moments of my life. There
as few as I am in the winter of my
life that I have left thinking about government shutdowns, having
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lived through a few of them.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
But that American excusing'll give me a break.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
But Joe pointed out, it's all about they increased some
of your Obamacare goodies during COVID because that was a
crazy time and now we're trying to go back to
the old way now that COVID's over, and the Democrats
are acting like it's some sort of horror like healthy
able bodied males who make plenty of money don't get
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free health care from the government just because. So that's
what makes it so amazing that the Washington Post editorial
board is saying the Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree
to extend the COVID era insurance somebody's subsidies without proposing
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any way to pay for it. What the Washington Post
editorial boards posted pointing this out, did.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Somebody hack their Twitter account? That's remarkably truthy.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And the WAPO editorial board goes on to say the
real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never
actually affordable.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
President Barco.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
President Barack Obama's signature achievement allowed people to buy insurance
on marketplaces with subsidies based on their income. The architects
of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger
than they turned out to be. As a result, policies
cost more than expected. Yeah, that is right. The Affordable
Care Act wasn't that affordable? Made everything more expensive.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Then it was an unholy stew of backscratching and crony
capitalism with the big insurance companies.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Then it got all juiced up during COVID and now
we're trying to pare it back to the ridiculousness it
was before COVID. It wasn't good before that. And the
Democrats are acting like, oh, you're taking away people's healthcare. Yeah,
and the mainstream medium mostly goes along with it. Well,
good on the Washington Post editorial board for being honest
about that. That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I read one thing from a guy from the Hudston
Institute Hudson Institute, which I believe is a conservative think tank.
But he said, look, if the Republicans back down on this,
we have absolutely given up and said, the budgeting process
only goes one way plus up. We never cut back anything,
We never rain back in excessive spending or temporary spending.
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There is no minus button on the calculator anymore if
they give up on this one.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And I thought, he's absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I mean, and if the messaging is hard and the
Republicans are going to get blamed because their Democrats can
always go with their trying to take away your healthcare
and terrify everybody, do better messaging, get better messengers.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
We can't lose this one. So, like I said, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I'm not reading or watching anything about the shutdown, and
they had a lot of it on your Sunday news shows,
but this was on Meet the Press Adam Schiff, who's
a freaking lieon piece of crap, and my senator it's a.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Little charitable, but go on with Kristin Walker and she
asked him this.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
You heard, Speaker Johnson as you're just referencing criticized Democrats
for using the government shut down to press for an
extension of those Obamacare tax subsidies. But you actually did
make a similar point back in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Why is now different o Care?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
So there was a crisis now that we didn't have then.
The crisis is far worse now, I should.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Say then we had then.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Okay, her pointing out weasel, I mean that really needs
to be the headline. You taught a weasel to speak
American English.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's an achievement.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Look, they put the weasel in a suit, isn't it cute?
It's cute a weasel in a suit talking. I'll be damned.
And then well let's try this one.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So this is.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
A maybe speakers starting next year. Jeffrey's on Meet the
Press about the same topic.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You say, this is.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
A Republican shutdown, But it's Democratic senators who are withholding
their votes. Why not fund the government and debate extending
Obamacare tax credits after the fact that America.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
Is already too expensive for the American people because of
the Trump failed policies to Trump tariffs, and this will
make things worse. So we just want to bipartisan negotiation
that addresses the ship price.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
My main point is you got the host to meet
the press pushing Democrats on what are you doing here?
Which again you had that with the Washington Post. This
might be the first time ever that Democrats are going
to lose the public opinion war on this whole shutdown thing.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Is press the meet, as I prefer to call it,
is that the CBS one or attendee, remember NBC. Okay,
I was just wondering whether the whole Barry Weiss taking
over CBS News, the free press being so assented. I
wonder if there's been some sort of wake up call
to the newsrooms of America, maybe just an emboldening of the.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Real journalists, you know, assert themselves.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Bezos hired a conservative to run the top of Washington
Post to try to get things back in line, and
maybe that's what happened there at that editorial board piece.
I mean for the Washington Post to put in a
sentence the problem with the Affordable Care Act is was
never really affordable. Wow, that's the first time I've heard
anybody at that level say.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That out loud, right right. You know.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
The funny thing is, folks, we on the conservative side
of life. I don't fear the progressive arguments being aired
at all.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I want to.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I want to bring them to your attention so you
can see how ridiculous and in effective they are. But
over on the left side of the aisle, mayn they
hate having conservative points of view even expressed. They'll s
they'll call it hate speech, or they'll say that they're
making me feel unsafe for whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No, no, no, do not be silenced. Friends.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
One more clip and then I promise I can't take
any more about the h got a.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Good angle, I've got a good angle. But yes, we'll
play the Clinton.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
This is Rent's prebus, who used to run the RNC.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
This is the most stupid thing I think I've ever witnessed.
In Washington, DC. We passed a budget bill in July.
The Republicans have offered a clean cr which means we're
going to keep funding the government for the next six
weeks at the exact same levels that we've always been
funding it. The same bill that the Democrats voted on
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four times, the same bill that Chuck Schumer argued for
voting for numerous times on the floor.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yes, what's going on here? And Speaker Johnson pointed this
out somewhere yesterday. Chuck Schumer is worried he's going to
lose to AOC when he's up for reelection next year
if he doesn't push the shutdown. That's the whole story.
As you can see, it doesn't make sense to anybody.
It doesn't make sense to meet the press or the
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Washington Post, let alone, you know, middle of the road
or people that lean right. It's all about one guy,
Chuck Schumer, who thinks he's going to lose to AOC,
which I'll bet he does if he doesn't seem like
he's standing up for all.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
He's seene is fighting.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
I'm fighting the Trump agenda, fighting in the rest what's
the opsite, fighting the good fight, fighting the dumb fight.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'm fighting the dumb fight. Well, he's just fighting period.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I like the rest of what previous said Michael, can
you hit that too, And by the.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Way, and what do they want to fund with this
one point five trillion? And I'm ready to argue illegal
immigration because I know it inside and out as far
as healthcare, Medicaid, state exchanges, emergency reimbursements through Medicare, and Obamacare,
they want to fund people who don't want to go
to work, who are able bodied, have no kids under
seven years old, no mental illness, and they don't want
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to legal immigration through state exchanges and reimbursements set up
by Obama and Biden one hundred percent fact check true.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
So he's out a firm grasp of the policies and
how it works and where the money is flowing. And
then the response from Hakeem Jeffreys is inevitably, you're trying
to take away healthcare from Americans during a crisis when
they need it most to you respond to slogans and
bul cracks.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Which one of them is I heard say this, and
just to benefit the richest in this country, to benefit billionaires.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Okay, that's where we are. You know what's the best
thing about this whole shutdown?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
If you really liked this sort of thing, this is
all about funding until November. That's it of this year.
Yes to like the first week in November. We're only
talking about getting through this little patch here until.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The first week of November.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Could our governance be more incompetent or dysfunctional?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It could not be dumber. So all but four excuse.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Me, Congressional Democrats who voted against the funding bill that
would have kept the government open. Many of them have
since been whining and moaning about the millions of federal
workers who won't get a paycheck. But they're still getting
their checks themselves. Members of Congress keep getting paid. That's
increment the troops for instance. Yeah, some have opted to
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defer or donate their salaries, which start at one hundred
and seventy four grand a year by the way, for
congress person. But some are doing that, including six Senate Republicans.
Some Democrats, including New Jersey's Andy Kim, have deferred their salary.
At least two dozen House members are doing the same thing,
But several Democrats who've been among the most vocal using
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the pay issue to attack Republicans, have either outright rejected
calls to defer their own pay or failed to announce
plans to do so here is a roundup of their
statements to enjoy. Ruben Gego, high profile democrat from Arizona.
He's appeared seven times on CNN and MSNBC to proclaim
his opposition of the White House budget proposal.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I'm not wealthy, and I have three kids.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
I would basically be missing, you know, oh, mortgage payments,
rent payments, child support, he told the NBC News. So
it's not feasible, it's not gonna happen. He won't defer
his salary, but it's okay to take paychecks away from
our military and benefits away from veterans.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
The RNC asked, are you really living that paycheck to
paycheck at that point in your life, dude, where like
one paycheck all of a sudden your kids can't eat.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well, it's a little it's more complicated than that check.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Is Diego's wife, Sydney, who worked until earlier this year
as a top lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors,
and Diego pays an unknown amount of child support to
his ex wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Diego, who he divorced
when she was nine months pregnant.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
With their son. Oo.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Wow, how about Hakeem Jeffries, who makes one hundred and
ninety three plus a year as House Minority Leader, a
leader he squirmed during a press conference Wednesday when asked
whether he would give up his paychecks. Jeffrey said, it's
the decision members we'll have to make on their own.
But when he was asked, well, what about you, he said, well,
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first of all, that the question is not even the
right one because we're anticipating that this shutdown issue will
be resolved. Okay, the invaluable, the delightful, the charming. Jasmine
Crockett of Texas said, quote, they make you be broke
until they get they stuff together. And to be clear,
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members of Congress, we still get paid. I just want
to put that out there because I like to be
fully transparent, but announced that she will not be deferring
her salary. Likewise, Amy Klobucher, Elizabeth Warren are still taking
their money, etc. Let's see, Adam Schiff, who was decrying
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the tremendous hardship for a lot of federal employees, is
like a talking weasel, tends to gotta keep getting his
while they pretend to fight for something or other against Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
So anyway, they're gonna vote today. We'll see if enough
and well, they need a couple more Democrats to join in,
then it's over.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You know, maybe that'll be our freedom loving quote of
the day to kick off the show tomorrow. They make
you be broke until they get they stuff together. I
hear you, brother, George Washington. No, I'm sorry. That was
Jasmine Crockett who said that, not Washington.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I saw one of the most hilariously dumb movies ever
my son and I watched.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Finally made it to Netflix.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It was in the theaters for like but two days,
but everybody hated it so much they pulled it out
of theaters. Primitive War the Vietnam Vietnam meets Jurassic Park
that I've been talking about, Wow, I gotta tell you
about it, among other things on the waist stay here.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
New York mayor candidates Zorn Mam Donnie ran an uh.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
He ran an.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
Ad during an episode of Golden Bachelor, in which he said,
New York, will you accept this rose? Not to be outdone,
Andrew Cuomo ran an ad in which he said, Hanko, hank.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Point of that that was.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Not the joke, It was the crowd erupting with excitement
about mentioning Mom, Damie. He is going to win and
be the next mayor of New York City, which is something.
And by the way, as I mentioned earlier, that was
the least funny episode of Saturday Night Live I've ever seen.
I don't know if all the writers quit or what
happened there, but.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Wild and I say again, socialism and its cousin communism
is the greatest fraud ever developed by humankind.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It is. It reminds me of the coronavirus.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
It almost had to be developed in a lab because it,
in spite of its miserable, nightmarish, horrific track record, get
sold to young people in soft heads over and over
and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Its track record couldn't be more miserable. And yet here
we are. So I want to pitch.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
A terror movie to you that you might like if
you're a certain sort of person. My son says it's
now his favorite movie of all time, but I'll.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Called Primitive War.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
He had been waiting for this since he saw the
previews last year. It's a Vietnam war movie with dinosaurs
in it. And when I first saw the thing, I thought,
this is no kidding finally, and so he was all
excited about it, and he knew and it was going
to hit the box office because it wasn't playing. It
never played in our town or nearby. And then it
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left the theaters after like a week. It made two rising.
It made two hundred thousand dollars nationwide before they yanked
it out of the theaters. Then they waited, waited a
couple of weeks, and they put it into streaming. Now
we we downloaded it on Apple I think or Prime.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
But it's it's got some stars in it, Jeremy Piven
in the guy from Entourage or a bunch of different stuff. Yeah,
he's really good in a dramatic role as like the
commander there. But I mean it's a The first third
is like a pretty damn well shot Vietnam movie.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I mean it's it's really good.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And then what happens, Well, the Green Berets are missing,
and they think there must be a group of Viet
Kong over there or something like that because they can't
find the Green Berets, so they send this reconnaissance team in.
Then they see these giant footprints. Anyway, it becomes becomes
clear to the mis dinosaurs anyway, And there's lots of
people getting their heads bit clean off or their arms
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ripped apart.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And I mean it's gruesome.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Boy, it's a it's like it's it is really like
Apocalypse now in Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Put in a blender.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Yeah, wow, I call for more of that. Let's let's
add dinosaurs some more genres. I got sports movies. The
plucky outsider who couldn't make the team in college. He
becomes a major league ballplayer until he's attacked by rom coms.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You know, your old high school boyfriend. You don't like
your current husband. Anyway, He gets his head bit off
by a ternosaur's rex.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What else? There got to be hundreds of these.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
It's cast and furious and dinosaurs. It's called primitive war.
It's got a fifty three percent on rotten tomatoes. Don't
miss it.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
A federal judge on Saturday blocking the president's attempt to
send troops into Portland. The federal judge, who Trump himself appointed,
saying the administration's descriptions of chaos of the city is
simply untethered to the facts. The protests in Portland have
not been significantly violent or disruptive, and are insufficient to
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federalize the National Guard in the state, writing this is
a nation of constitutional law, not martial law, mostly.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Peaceful protests in other words, And you know, number one,
the question of is there justification for calling out the
Guard is a good one, and we ought to work
our way through it because we don't want excessive acts
by presidents on either side of the aisle. You've got
to that sort of thing in because of the nature
of power.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
And I think we're all a little tired of the
a judge somewhere has ruled something thwarting the Trump administration
when there's going to be an appeal and then probably
get to the Supreme Court eventually. But there's a lot
of kind of lazy rhetoric out of the media right
now about the situation in Portland. What the idea that
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it's well, here, I tell you what, let's uh, here's
the the Mayor of Portland, Keith Wilson, clips seventy.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Despite the courts ruling, the federal government has activated California
National Guard personnel under Title ten to operate in Portland.
This action circumvents the judge's decision and threatens to inflame
a community that has remained peaceful.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Wow, that's the most this is not a nice thing
to say. That's the most flaccid sounding leader I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, Portland is something there. I was reading
about the city council where they have good leadership there.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Just are you really got that whole you follow me, guys,
I got this sort of vibe. Man, Oh yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
But in Portland on the city council they have the
far left and then they have well they have liberals
and then they have socialists on the city council. I
mean it is to the left of Leningrad. But the
idea that this is peaceful or peaceful you're inflaming the community.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well that's that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I told the President you shouldn't send the National Guard.
So that's what I'm doing. I'm fighting and fighting as
hard as I can.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
There's violence, either a little or a lot, every single night.
And if you're freak azoid, community members would stop attacking,
you know, federal facilities and troops and cops and the
rest of it, then nothing would happen. The National Guard
guys would mill around and then go home.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Their claim is that we wouldn't be attacking if the
Guard wasn't here. But what doesn't make sense with that
is just, well, then just stop stop attacking them, like
Joe zaid, then they'll just mill around and nothing will happen.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
What's the problem.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I know, it's so ridiculous and so circular. Here's the
governor of Oregon, Tina Kotek in seventy one.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
There's no need for military intervention in Oregon.
Speaker 11 (20:14):
There's no insurrection in Portland, there's no threat to national security.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oregon is our home. It is not a military target.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
All right, that's fine, that's great. Oh you know, I
want to get to Chicago. But before we do.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
What was I listened to? This is perfect on this
story though. Somebody, one of my favorite like nonpartisan journalists
was just talking about how people who their algorithm is
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a certain way are seeing the violence in Portland and thinking, well, yeah,
you got to have National Guard troops, ARA cops or something.
And then people whose algorithm is not on the story
at all or just covering the part about Trump sending
the National Guard troops and the judge shutting the judge
shutting it down, are just in completely different you know
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eco bubbles. I mean, there's no overlap whatsoever on this story.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, I would agree. A couple of questions for you
good people. Number One, when was the last time you
fought a cop or hurled something at a cop, or
tried to provoke them by screaming in their face, etc.
Probably not very often. Secondly, if the Biden administration had
sent the National Guard to your city and you thought
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it was unjustified in an unconstitutional exercise of executive power,
name the things that you, as a voter and a
citizen and a patriot, would do. Okay about that, and
tell me is one of those things, well, I'd fight
some of the troops or throw bricks at them, or
shine lasers in their eyeballs. You wouldn't oppose the i'll
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see and go through the courts, and you would fight
the actual cops and National guardsmen. That makes you a
freaking idiot and a lunatic and a jackass. The idea that, well,
the troops are there, so people are attacking them, Well,
wait a minute, let's take that apart. That's ridiculous. God,
some of the stupid stuff that gets said in American
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politics disease. It's enough to make me loony for what
it's worth. And all the cops in America know this,
but the story has been underreported both the Oh you
know what, I'm sorry, we need to we need to
turn first to Chicago briefly, where Trump is calling out
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the National Guard there as well.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Well, did you say the letter from the National Fraternal
Order of Police.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
That's where I was going. Okay, That's that's where I'm
had to night. I wanted to set the scene in
Chicago first. Uh give us sixty six, Michael.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
We're also watching what's happening in Chicago. The White House
deploying three hundred National Guard troops.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Illinois Governor J. D.
Speaker 11 (23:03):
Pritsker says this is unnecessary and only for political purposes.
Over the weekend, reports broke Chicago police were told not
to assist federal agents in need, the situation getting quite dicey.
On Saturday, after there was an incident involving a vehicles
ramming federal enforcement officers as they were trying to get
control of a situation. We heard from the Fraternal Order
of Police who said that's unacceptable that they believe no
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matter when an officer is in need, that everyone should
respond to help. We'll see if the White House has
any more to say. But Chicago getting a lot of
attention as well as Portland.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
The federal agents are under attack and the cops are
told not to help them out. How do you think
you could possibly structure a society where that's okay?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Where are you gonna let individual governors, mayors, whoever just
decide if the mob gets to take control here or
if we're gonna back up the cops. I mean it all,
I mean it all immediately falls apart.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You really. Governor J B.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Pritzker child mutilating Sicko and Brandon Johnson Union Hoe, mayor
of Chicago, declared Chicago a sanctuary state for people fighting
cops and troops.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You can be against the policy as much as you want,
and some people on the right are, but you gotta
work it through the courts or vote for different people
that will pass different laws. You can't decide that No,
the cops are not gonna back this up. But they'll
back that up. They they they'll stand down if this
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is happening, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
They'll watch they'll watch a National guardsman or federal officer
get beaten to death. We're not going to help them,
and not surprisingly, both the National and the Illinois State
FOPS the Fraternity of Police are yelling about this.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
They're angry about this, FOP said quote.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Details are still emerging, but it appears that officers from
the Chicago Police Department were ordered not to assist a
group of ICE agents while they were physically threatened by
what appeared to be an angry mob. Let me be clear,
both the National FOP and the Illinois believe that when
an officer calls for assistance, you answer no matter what.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah, that's the only way it works. That is so nuts.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
The fact that this isn't a bigger national news story
is depressing.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I know it is. It is.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
It just shows the perverse and pervasive bias of the media.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
So what do you think the people on the left
they think all those ICE agents should resign or refuse
to do what they're being told to do. Is that
what they think should happen there?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
I would love to hear them explain their reasoning, if
there is any reasoning. But the State FOP president Chris Southwood,
pointed out the number one unwritten rule in law enforcement
is that we respond to any call from officers in distress.
What would have happened if the local police were facing
threats and nearby federal officers were.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Told not to assist.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Whether you agree about immigration enforcement or not, when a
law enforcement officers in trouble, nothing should stand in the
way of fellow officers rendering assistance that.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Is obvious to any sane human being.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Now, the Chicago PD is disputing those claims, saying they
are on the scene to maintain public safety and document
the incident. CPD officers did in fact respond to the
shooting scene involving federal authorities to maintain public safety and
traffic control.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Well, the FOP, I doubt they're making it up.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I doubt they are too. That's a highly troubling story,
it really is.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
And again, where a lot of this ends, you know,
legally speaking through the courts, will unfold over the next
days and weeks and we'll all find out together. And
that's fine, but man, there is a huge, huge divide
in just the basic perceptions of certain things in our society.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
It's just crazy.
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Speaker 4 (28:23):
I was fiiction a door lock in my house over
the weekend. It's just like the little thing that comes
out the bolt thing is not matching up the whole
right somewhere. And I was just thinking about while I
was working on that, how much more I enjoyed doing
something like that that, at least for me, is intuitive
as opposed to fixing computers. I almost dropped that bomb.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Oh boy, we'll go to forgive you.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Your stuff where it just tells you something and you
haven't got the slightest idea how to make it work.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
We coined the term e exhaustion a number of years
ago to describe that feeling when you're just trying to
do something simple and now you're five steps into passwords
and codes and reboots and the rest of it, and
you just.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Want to effing fill out the.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Four right right. Yeah, Oh man, being a.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Home improvement I did one of the stupid things I've
ever done. I almost caused so much damage to my
own home yesterday. It was a near disaster. Probably I'll
tell you about that next. But man, back to the
news of the day. Breaking news. Mark Sanchez is now
facing a felony charge. So he got stabbed.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
That guy legit thought the crazy, giant drunk quarterback was
gonna hurt him or kill him.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
To the point that he stabbed Sanchez and the cops
charged Sanchez with a felony.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, right, man, that guy was in a bad he
had to be scared to death. Well, obviously he was.
He was fighting for he thought he was fighting for
his life, and apparently the cops agree. What an interesting story. Yeah,
you're right. His career is definitely done.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That's done.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
He will not be on Fox.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Again unless he does the whole full responsibility. I'm an
alcoholic rehab redemption tour thing large donations somewhere or other.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
There are a lot of articulate ex quarterbacks who could
get in the booth instead of old Uh you know,
I'm gonna beat up an old truck driver because I'm
black up drunk Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, that truck driver is like in his sixties, right,
that's weak.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yeah, football fans know what I'm talking about. So Sanchez
will now be known for a this incident and b
the infamous butt fumble that will be his legacy.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Okay, we got more on the way to stay here.
Speaker 12 (30:40):
Herbert looking that way, throwing two set down the colne
Mikey Saint Russo with the pick.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
That was quite the play. Chargers lost again. So they're
three and two and they started three and zero, and
fortunes change in the NFL so fast. But I'd forgotten
from last season how much I like that Redskins quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Sorry, still call them the Redskins.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
That he is so fun, so fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Remember he made it.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
They made it to the championship game last year.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Yeah, So, speaking of entertainment, to my bride and I
went to a concert in a distant city, not distant.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
It was a bit of a drive.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
And number one, we have decided we've arrived at a
policy we.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Will no longer go see.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
And I'm not going to name the recording artist involved,
because maybe you have tickets, you want to go to
the show, you're excited about it. Neil it was Neil Sadak,
the Great Neil Sedaka. Ooh I hear laughter in the
rain or something. No, but we decided, look, we're not
going to go to shows featuring our seventies, eighties, nineties
heroes anymore.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Really, combination of lack of passion, you know, going through
the motions.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well, that's interesting. I did not.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I had the opposite experience scene Eagles. They were like,
it felt like it could have been nineteen seventy eight.
I insist on calling them some eagles still. Uh, never
forget Glenn Frye anyway, And sometimes it's that they're in
the sort of venue that doesn't know how to do sound.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
For rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Like the show we did on Friday night, it was
just the sound was so muddy.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Uh it just wasn't great, but you know it was
it was. It was good.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I mean, I've seen older ax where it was like
I said, Dwight, Dwight yoakum recently, he's seventy. He was fantastic.
But then I saw an ancient Willie Nelson once and
it was like he didn't He did not care at
all that I had driven there and paid to see him.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I mean, I was not on his mind in the
least your hard earned dollars. Yeah yeah, uh so.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Anyway, but we got home the next day after staying overnight.
Don't drive drunk, folks, and I decided in the afternoon
Saturday afternoon, I had time to do a fairly simple
plumbing repair. And I have I've done this sort of
thing dozens of times in my life. Back when we
were young and poor. I did virtually everything because we
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couldn't afford to hire people. But I admit I was
tired and and and you have to remember our house
is in the midst of a major remodel. The floors
have just been redone one coat of like the lacquer
or whatever they put on the wood floors. One coat
has been done. And so I I go to do
this fairly simple, uh plumbing job. It was a toilet
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repair thing, and and I realized halfway through, wow, that
that part is I don't want to reinstall that it
doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I need to swap it out for a new one.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
And I don't have time to go because we've got
dinner reservations, and you know, a to hell with it.
I'm just gonna put everything back together and and I'll
do it another day. And so I put almost everything
back together, eh boy, And and and then turn the
uh the water pressure back and then go down to
a different part of the house so Judy and I
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can work on the New York Times Crossroad puzzle together,
which is one.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Of the things we enjoy doing together.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
And after about ten minutes of that, I thought, you know,
dinner's coming up, I should take a shower. Blah blah blah,
so and seriously as solid ten minutes, maybe fifteen at
past and I go off to walk to where our
clothes are because we're like ghettoed into a corner of
our house because of the whole remodel thing.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
And I hear from upstairs.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
I hear downstairs not dripping, more splashing of water on
the hardwood, and I uttered a two word obscenity, kind
of a funny one.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Holy f. What does that mean? What would a holy
F be? I don't know in what sense would it be? Holy?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
I say it semi regularly, but I yeah, anyway, So
I uttered that, and luckily my first thought was, oh
my god, it's got to be the toilet thing. And
I rushed back and turned off the valve in the bathroom,
which was now full of water. Then I carreene downstairs,
I've got to go like outside and around because everything's
tarped off, and there our newly redone kitchen all you know,
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it's not quite done yet, but just a huge pool
of water and just pouring out of the ceiling. Oh crap,
Oh man, I emptied one pc he didn't get back in.
I emptied the whole dictionary of obscenities then and screamed
for my wife, and by god, every towel in the
house was put to use, several buckets and trash cans
and the rest of it. And called the contractor and oh,
(35:32):
what a nightmare. But luckily he said, look, it's here
and gone. It's not like it's going gone on for
weeks and there's mold and stuff like that. He said,
it's fine. The pain will take care of it. And
the floor guys aren't done. He'll be fine. But oh
my god, there's no fixing.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Stupid.
Speaker 10 (35:47):
No.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
As we've talked about it before, that's one of the
worst things you learn as an adult that when you
screw up, Wow, Dad's not gonna yell at me or
anything like that. I just have to pay.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
For everything, you know, I've I've a final accepted my
brain as it is, the strengths and weaknesses. But just
as a general guideline, absent minded people should not do plumbing.
You can get it away with a lot of sins.
In home repair, but plumbing. Plumbing justice always happens.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Plumbing justice.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Negotiations are ongoing, but it appears that both sides are
unwilling to budge. Democrats are still demanding inclusions of tax
credits for Obamacare subsidies. They're also requiring that the President
not recent changes to appropriations moving forward, also known as recisions.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Okay, so Joe explained this last week, I have not
paid any attention to the whole shutdown thing. I promised
myself a long time ago that I was not going
to spend any of my moments of my life. There
as few as I am in the winter of my
life that I have left thinking about government shutdowns, having
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lived through a few of them.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
But that American excusing'll give me a break.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
But Joe pointed out, it's all about they increased some
of your Obamacare goodies during COVID because that was a
crazy time and now we're trying to go back to
the old way now that COVID's over, and the Democrats
are acting like it's some sort of horror like healthy
able bodied males who make plenty of money don't get
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free health care from the government just because. So that's
what makes it so amazing that the Washington Post editorial
board is saying the Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree
to extend the COVID era insurance somebody's subsidies without proposing
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any way to pay for it. What the Washington Post
editorial boards posted pointing this out, did.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Somebody hack their Twitter account? That's remarkably truthy.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And the WAPO editorial board goes on to say the
real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never
actually affordable.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
President Barco.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
President Barack Obama's signature achievement allowed people to buy insurance
on marketplaces with subsidies based on their income. The architects
of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger
than they turned out to be. As a result, policies
cost more than expected. Yeah, that is right. The Affordable
Care Act wasn't that affordable? Made everything more expensive.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Then it was an unholy stew of backscratching and crony
capitalism with the big insurance companies.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Then it got all juiced up during COVID and now
we're trying to pare it back to the ridiculousness it
was before COVID. It wasn't good before that. And the
Democrats are acting like, oh, you're taking away people's healthcare. Yeah,
and the mainstream medium mostly goes along with it. Well,
good on the Washington Post editorial board for being honest
about that. That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I read one thing from a guy from the Hudston
Institute Hudson Institute, which I believe is a conservative think tank.
But he said, look, if the Republicans back down on this,
we have absolutely given up and said, the budgeting process
only goes one way plus up. We never cut back anything,
We never rain back in excessive spending or temporary spending.
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There is no minus button on the calculator anymore if
they give up on this one.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And I thought, he's absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I mean, and if the messaging is hard and the
Republicans are going to get blamed because their Democrats can
always go with their trying to take away your healthcare
and terrify everybody, do better messaging, get better messengers.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
We can't lose this one. So, like I said, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I'm not reading or watching anything about the shutdown, and
they had a lot of it on your Sunday news shows,
but this was on Meet the Press Adam Schiff, who's
a freaking lieon piece of crap, and my senator it's a.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Little charitable, but go on with Kristin Walker and she
asked him this.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
You heard, Speaker Johnson as you're just referencing criticized Democrats
for using the government shut down to press for an
extension of those Obamacare tax subsidies. But you actually did
make a similar point back in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Why is now different o Care?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
So there was a crisis now that we didn't have then.
The crisis is far worse now, I should.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Say then we had then.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Okay, her pointing out weasel, I mean that really needs
to be the headline. You taught a weasel to speak
American English.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's an achievement.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Look, they put the weasel in a suit, isn't it cute?
It's cute a weasel in a suit talking. I'll be damned.
And then well let's try this one.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So this is.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
A maybe speakers starting next year. Jeffrey's on Meet the
Press about the same topic.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You say, this is.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
A Republican shutdown, But it's Democratic senators who are withholding
their votes. Why not fund the government and debate extending
Obamacare tax credits after the fact that America.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
Is already too expensive for the American people because of
the Trump failed policies to Trump tariffs, and this will
make things worse. So we just want to bipartisan negotiation
that addresses the ship price.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
My main point is you got the host to meet
the press pushing Democrats on what are you doing here?
Which again you had that with the Washington Post. This
might be the first time ever that Democrats are going
to lose the public opinion war on this whole shutdown thing.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Is press the meet, as I prefer to call it,
is that the CBS one or attendee, remember NBC. Okay,
I was just wondering whether the whole Barry Weiss taking
over CBS News, the free press being so assented. I
wonder if there's been some sort of wake up call
to the newsrooms of America, maybe just an emboldening of the.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Real journalists, you know, assert themselves.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Bezos hired a conservative to run the top of Washington
Post to try to get things back in line, and
maybe that's what happened there at that editorial board piece.
I mean for the Washington Post to put in a
sentence the problem with the Affordable Care Act is was
never really affordable. Wow, that's the first time I've heard
anybody at that level say.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That out loud, right right. You know.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
The funny thing is, folks, we on the conservative side
of life. I don't fear the progressive arguments being aired
at all.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I want to.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I want to bring them to your attention so you
can see how ridiculous and in effective they are. But
over on the left side of the aisle, mayn they
hate having conservative points of view even expressed. They'll s
they'll call it hate speech, or they'll say that they're
making me feel unsafe for whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No, no, no, do not be silenced. Friends.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
One more clip and then I promise I can't take
any more about the h got a.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Good angle, I've got a good angle. But yes, we'll
play the Clinton.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
This is Rent's prebus, who used to run the RNC.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
This is the most stupid thing I think I've ever witnessed.
In Washington, DC. We passed a budget bill in July.
The Republicans have offered a clean cr which means we're
going to keep funding the government for the next six
weeks at the exact same levels that we've always been
funding it. The same bill that the Democrats voted on
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four times, the same bill that Chuck Schumer argued for
voting for numerous times on the floor.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yes, what's going on here? And Speaker Johnson pointed this
out somewhere yesterday. Chuck Schumer is worried he's going to
lose to AOC when he's up for reelection next year
if he doesn't push the shutdown. That's the whole story.
As you can see, it doesn't make sense to anybody.
It doesn't make sense to meet the press or the
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Washington Post, let alone, you know, middle of the road
or people that lean right. It's all about one guy,
Chuck Schumer, who thinks he's going to lose to AOC,
which I'll bet he does if he doesn't seem like
he's standing up for all.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
He's seene is fighting.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
I'm fighting the Trump agenda, fighting in the rest what's
the opsite, fighting the good fight, fighting the dumb fight.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'm fighting the dumb fight. Well, he's just fighting period.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I like the rest of what previous said Michael, can
you hit that too, And by the.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Way, and what do they want to fund with this
one point five trillion? And I'm ready to argue illegal
immigration because I know it inside and out as far
as healthcare, Medicaid, state exchanges, emergency reimbursements through Medicare, and Obamacare,
they want to fund people who don't want to go
to work, who are able bodied, have no kids under
seven years old, no mental illness, and they don't want
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to legal immigration through state exchanges and reimbursements set up
by Obama and Biden one hundred percent fact check true.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
So he's out a firm grasp of the policies and
how it works and where the money is flowing. And
then the response from Hakeem Jeffreys is inevitably, you're trying
to take away healthcare from Americans during a crisis when
they need it most to you respond to slogans and
bul cracks.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Which one of them is I heard say this, and
just to benefit the richest in this country, to benefit billionaires.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Okay, that's where we are. You know what's the best
thing about this whole shutdown?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
If you really liked this sort of thing, this is
all about funding until November. That's it of this year.
Yes to like the first week in November. We're only
talking about getting through this little patch here until.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The first week of November.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Could our governance be more incompetent or dysfunctional?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It could not be dumber. So all but four excuse.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Me, Congressional Democrats who voted against the funding bill that
would have kept the government open. Many of them have
since been whining and moaning about the millions of federal
workers who won't get a paycheck. But they're still getting
their checks themselves. Members of Congress keep getting paid. That's
increment the troops for instance. Yeah, some have opted to
(10:12):
defer or donate their salaries, which start at one hundred
and seventy four grand a year by the way, for
congress person. But some are doing that, including six Senate Republicans.
Some Democrats, including New Jersey's Andy Kim, have deferred their salary.
At least two dozen House members are doing the same thing,
But several Democrats who've been among the most vocal using
(10:34):
the pay issue to attack Republicans, have either outright rejected
calls to defer their own pay or failed to announce
plans to do so here is a roundup of their
statements to enjoy. Ruben Gego, high profile democrat from Arizona.
He's appeared seven times on CNN and MSNBC to proclaim
his opposition of the White House budget proposal.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I'm not wealthy, and I have three kids.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
I would basically be missing, you know, oh, mortgage payments,
rent payments, child support, he told the NBC News. So
it's not feasible, it's not gonna happen. He won't defer
his salary, but it's okay to take paychecks away from
our military and benefits away from veterans.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
The RNC asked, are you really living that paycheck to
paycheck at that point in your life, dude, where like
one paycheck all of a sudden your kids can't eat.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well, it's a little it's more complicated than that check.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Is Diego's wife, Sydney, who worked until earlier this year
as a top lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors,
and Diego pays an unknown amount of child support to
his ex wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Diego, who he divorced
when she was nine months pregnant.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
With their son. Oo.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Wow, how about Hakeem Jeffries, who makes one hundred and
ninety three plus a year as House Minority Leader, a
leader he squirmed during a press conference Wednesday when asked
whether he would give up his paychecks. Jeffrey said, it's
the decision members we'll have to make on their own.
But when he was asked, well, what about you, he said, well,
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first of all, that the question is not even the
right one because we're anticipating that this shutdown issue will
be resolved. Okay, the invaluable, the delightful, the charming. Jasmine
Crockett of Texas said, quote, they make you be broke
until they get they stuff together. And to be clear,
(12:19):
members of Congress, we still get paid. I just want
to put that out there because I like to be
fully transparent, but announced that she will not be deferring
her salary. Likewise, Amy Klobucher, Elizabeth Warren are still taking
their money, etc. Let's see, Adam Schiff, who was decrying
(12:41):
the tremendous hardship for a lot of federal employees, is
like a talking weasel, tends to gotta keep getting his
while they pretend to fight for something or other against Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
So anyway, they're gonna vote today. We'll see if enough
and well, they need a couple more Democrats to join in,
then it's over.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You know, maybe that'll be our freedom loving quote of
the day to kick off the show tomorrow. They make
you be broke until they get they stuff together. I
hear you, brother, George Washington. No, I'm sorry. That was
Jasmine Crockett who said that, not Washington.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I saw one of the most hilariously dumb movies ever
my son and I watched.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Finally made it to Netflix.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It was in the theaters for like but two days,
but everybody hated it so much they pulled it out
of theaters. Primitive War the Vietnam Vietnam meets Jurassic Park
that I've been talking about, Wow, I gotta tell you
about it, among other things on the waist stay here.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
New York mayor candidates Zorn Mam Donnie ran an uh.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
He ran an.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
Ad during an episode of Golden Bachelor, in which he said,
New York, will you accept this rose? Not to be outdone,
Andrew Cuomo ran an ad in which he said, Hanko, hank.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Point of that that was.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Not the joke, It was the crowd erupting with excitement
about mentioning Mom, Damie. He is going to win and
be the next mayor of New York City, which is something.
And by the way, as I mentioned earlier, that was
the least funny episode of Saturday Night Live I've ever seen.
I don't know if all the writers quit or what
happened there, but.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Wild and I say again, socialism and its cousin communism
is the greatest fraud ever developed by humankind.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It is. It reminds me of the coronavirus.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
It almost had to be developed in a lab because it,
in spite of its miserable, nightmarish, horrific track record, get
sold to young people in soft heads over and over
and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Its track record couldn't be more miserable. And yet here
we are. So I want to pitch.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
A terror movie to you that you might like if
you're a certain sort of person. My son says it's
now his favorite movie of all time, but I'll.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Called Primitive War.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
He had been waiting for this since he saw the
previews last year. It's a Vietnam war movie with dinosaurs
in it. And when I first saw the thing, I thought,
this is no kidding finally, and so he was all
excited about it, and he knew and it was going
to hit the box office because it wasn't playing. It
never played in our town or nearby. And then it
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left the theaters after like a week. It made two rising.
It made two hundred thousand dollars nationwide before they yanked
it out of the theaters. Then they waited, waited a
couple of weeks, and they put it into streaming. Now
we we downloaded it on Apple I think or Prime.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
But it's it's got some stars in it, Jeremy Piven
in the guy from Entourage or a bunch of different stuff. Yeah,
he's really good in a dramatic role as like the
commander there. But I mean it's a The first third
is like a pretty damn well shot Vietnam movie.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I mean it's it's really good.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And then what happens, Well, the Green Berets are missing,
and they think there must be a group of Viet
Kong over there or something like that because they can't
find the Green Berets, so they send this reconnaissance team in.
Then they see these giant footprints. Anyway, it becomes becomes
clear to the mis dinosaurs anyway, And there's lots of
people getting their heads bit clean off or their arms
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ripped apart.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And I mean it's gruesome.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Boy, it's a it's like it's it is really like
Apocalypse now in Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Put in a blender.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Yeah, wow, I call for more of that. Let's let's
add dinosaurs some more genres. I got sports movies. The
plucky outsider who couldn't make the team in college. He
becomes a major league ballplayer until he's attacked by rom coms.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You know, your old high school boyfriend. You don't like
your current husband. Anyway, He gets his head bit off
by a ternosaur's rex.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What else? There got to be hundreds of these.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
It's cast and furious and dinosaurs. It's called primitive war.
It's got a fifty three percent on rotten tomatoes. Don't
miss it.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
A federal judge on Saturday blocking the president's attempt to
send troops into Portland. The federal judge, who Trump himself appointed,
saying the administration's descriptions of chaos of the city is
simply untethered to the facts. The protests in Portland have
not been significantly violent or disruptive, and are insufficient to
(17:34):
federalize the National Guard in the state, writing this is
a nation of constitutional law, not martial law, mostly.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Peaceful protests in other words, And you know, number one,
the question of is there justification for calling out the
Guard is a good one, and we ought to work
our way through it because we don't want excessive acts
by presidents on either side of the aisle. You've got
to that sort of thing in because of the nature
of power.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
And I think we're all a little tired of the
a judge somewhere has ruled something thwarting the Trump administration
when there's going to be an appeal and then probably
get to the Supreme Court eventually. But there's a lot
of kind of lazy rhetoric out of the media right
now about the situation in Portland. What the idea that
(18:24):
it's well, here, I tell you what, let's uh, here's
the the Mayor of Portland, Keith Wilson, clips seventy.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Despite the courts ruling, the federal government has activated California
National Guard personnel under Title ten to operate in Portland.
This action circumvents the judge's decision and threatens to inflame
a community that has remained peaceful.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Wow, that's the most this is not a nice thing
to say. That's the most flaccid sounding leader I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, Portland is something there. I was reading
about the city council where they have good leadership there.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Just are you really got that whole you follow me, guys,
I got this sort of vibe. Man, Oh yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
But in Portland on the city council they have the
far left and then they have well they have liberals
and then they have socialists on the city council. I
mean it is to the left of Leningrad. But the
idea that this is peaceful or peaceful you're inflaming the community.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well that's that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I told the President you shouldn't send the National Guard.
So that's what I'm doing. I'm fighting and fighting as
hard as I can.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
There's violence, either a little or a lot, every single night.
And if you're freak azoid, community members would stop attacking,
you know, federal facilities and troops and cops and the
rest of it, then nothing would happen. The National Guard
guys would mill around and then go home.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Their claim is that we wouldn't be attacking if the
Guard wasn't here. But what doesn't make sense with that
is just, well, then just stop stop attacking them, like
Joe zaid, then they'll just mill around and nothing will happen.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
What's the problem.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I know, it's so ridiculous and so circular. Here's the
governor of Oregon, Tina Kotek in seventy one.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
There's no need for military intervention in Oregon.
Speaker 11 (20:14):
There's no insurrection in Portland, there's no threat to national security.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oregon is our home. It is not a military target.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
All right, that's fine, that's great. Oh you know, I
want to get to Chicago. But before we do.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
What was I listened to? This is perfect on this
story though. Somebody, one of my favorite like nonpartisan journalists
was just talking about how people who their algorithm is
(20:50):
a certain way are seeing the violence in Portland and thinking, well, yeah,
you got to have National Guard troops, ARA cops or something.
And then people whose algorithm is not on the story
at all or just covering the part about Trump sending
the National Guard troops and the judge shutting the judge
shutting it down, are just in completely different you know
(21:11):
eco bubbles. I mean, there's no overlap whatsoever on this story.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, I would agree. A couple of questions for you
good people. Number One, when was the last time you
fought a cop or hurled something at a cop, or
tried to provoke them by screaming in their face, etc.
Probably not very often. Secondly, if the Biden administration had
sent the National Guard to your city and you thought
(21:38):
it was unjustified in an unconstitutional exercise of executive power,
name the things that you, as a voter and a
citizen and a patriot, would do. Okay about that, and
tell me is one of those things, well, I'd fight
some of the troops or throw bricks at them, or
shine lasers in their eyeballs. You wouldn't oppose the i'll
(22:00):
see and go through the courts, and you would fight
the actual cops and National guardsmen. That makes you a
freaking idiot and a lunatic and a jackass. The idea that, well,
the troops are there, so people are attacking them, Well,
wait a minute, let's take that apart. That's ridiculous. God,
some of the stupid stuff that gets said in American
(22:22):
politics disease. It's enough to make me loony for what
it's worth. And all the cops in America know this,
but the story has been underreported both the Oh you
know what, I'm sorry, we need to we need to
turn first to Chicago briefly, where Trump is calling out
(22:43):
the National Guard there as well.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Well, did you say the letter from the National Fraternal
Order of Police.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
That's where I was going. Okay, That's that's where I'm
had to night. I wanted to set the scene in
Chicago first. Uh give us sixty six, Michael.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
We're also watching what's happening in Chicago. The White House
deploying three hundred National Guard troops.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Illinois Governor J. D.
Speaker 11 (23:03):
Pritsker says this is unnecessary and only for political purposes.
Over the weekend, reports broke Chicago police were told not
to assist federal agents in need, the situation getting quite dicey.
On Saturday, after there was an incident involving a vehicles
ramming federal enforcement officers as they were trying to get
control of a situation. We heard from the Fraternal Order
of Police who said that's unacceptable that they believe no
(23:25):
matter when an officer is in need, that everyone should
respond to help. We'll see if the White House has
any more to say. But Chicago getting a lot of
attention as well as Portland.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
The federal agents are under attack and the cops are
told not to help them out. How do you think
you could possibly structure a society where that's okay?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Where are you gonna let individual governors, mayors, whoever just
decide if the mob gets to take control here or
if we're gonna back up the cops. I mean it all,
I mean it all immediately falls apart.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You really. Governor J B.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Pritzker child mutilating Sicko and Brandon Johnson Union Hoe, mayor
of Chicago, declared Chicago a sanctuary state for people fighting
cops and troops.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You can be against the policy as much as you want,
and some people on the right are, but you gotta
work it through the courts or vote for different people
that will pass different laws. You can't decide that No,
the cops are not gonna back this up. But they'll
back that up. They they they'll stand down if this
(24:37):
is happening, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
They'll watch they'll watch a National guardsman or federal officer
get beaten to death. We're not going to help them,
and not surprisingly, both the National and the Illinois State
FOPS the Fraternity of Police are yelling about this.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
They're angry about this, FOP said quote.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Details are still emerging, but it appears that officers from
the Chicago Police Department were ordered not to assist a
group of ICE agents while they were physically threatened by
what appeared to be an angry mob. Let me be clear,
both the National FOP and the Illinois believe that when
an officer calls for assistance, you answer no matter what.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah, that's the only way it works. That is so nuts.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
The fact that this isn't a bigger national news story
is depressing.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I know it is. It is.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
It just shows the perverse and pervasive bias of the media.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
So what do you think the people on the left
they think all those ICE agents should resign or refuse
to do what they're being told to do. Is that
what they think should happen there?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
I would love to hear them explain their reasoning, if
there is any reasoning. But the State FOP president Chris Southwood,
pointed out the number one unwritten rule in law enforcement
is that we respond to any call from officers in distress.
What would have happened if the local police were facing
threats and nearby federal officers were.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Told not to assist.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Whether you agree about immigration enforcement or not, when a
law enforcement officers in trouble, nothing should stand in the
way of fellow officers rendering assistance that.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Is obvious to any sane human being.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Now, the Chicago PD is disputing those claims, saying they
are on the scene to maintain public safety and document
the incident. CPD officers did in fact respond to the
shooting scene involving federal authorities to maintain public safety and
traffic control.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Well, the FOP, I doubt they're making it up.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I doubt they are too. That's a highly troubling story,
it really is.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
And again, where a lot of this ends, you know,
legally speaking through the courts, will unfold over the next
days and weeks and we'll all find out together. And
that's fine, but man, there is a huge, huge divide
in just the basic perceptions of certain things in our society.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
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Speaker 4 (28:23):
I was fiiction a door lock in my house over
the weekend. It's just like the little thing that comes
out the bolt thing is not matching up the whole
right somewhere. And I was just thinking about while I
was working on that, how much more I enjoyed doing
something like that that, at least for me, is intuitive
as opposed to fixing computers. I almost dropped that bomb.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Oh boy, we'll go to forgive you.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Your stuff where it just tells you something and you
haven't got the slightest idea how to make it work.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
We coined the term e exhaustion a number of years
ago to describe that feeling when you're just trying to
do something simple and now you're five steps into passwords
and codes and reboots and the rest of it, and
you just.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Want to effing fill out the.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Four right right. Yeah, Oh man, being a.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Home improvement I did one of the stupid things I've
ever done. I almost caused so much damage to my
own home yesterday. It was a near disaster. Probably I'll
tell you about that next. But man, back to the
news of the day. Breaking news. Mark Sanchez is now
facing a felony charge. So he got stabbed.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
That guy legit thought the crazy, giant drunk quarterback was
gonna hurt him or kill him.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
To the point that he stabbed Sanchez and the cops
charged Sanchez with a felony.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, right, man, that guy was in a bad he
had to be scared to death. Well, obviously he was.
He was fighting for he thought he was fighting for
his life, and apparently the cops agree. What an interesting story. Yeah,
you're right. His career is definitely done.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That's done.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
He will not be on Fox.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Again unless he does the whole full responsibility. I'm an
alcoholic rehab redemption tour thing large donations somewhere or other.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
There are a lot of articulate ex quarterbacks who could
get in the booth instead of old Uh you know,
I'm gonna beat up an old truck driver because I'm
black up drunk Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, that truck driver is like in his sixties, right,
that's weak.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yeah, football fans know what I'm talking about. So Sanchez
will now be known for a this incident and b
the infamous butt fumble that will be his legacy.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Okay, we got more on the way to stay here.
Speaker 12 (30:40):
Herbert looking that way, throwing two set down the colne
Mikey Saint Russo with the pick.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
That was quite the play. Chargers lost again. So they're
three and two and they started three and zero, and
fortunes change in the NFL so fast. But I'd forgotten
from last season how much I like that Redskins quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Sorry, still call them the Redskins.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
That he is so fun, so fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Remember he made it.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
They made it to the championship game last year.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Yeah, So, speaking of entertainment, to my bride and I
went to a concert in a distant city, not distant.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
It was a bit of a drive.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
And number one, we have decided we've arrived at a
policy we.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Will no longer go see.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
And I'm not going to name the recording artist involved,
because maybe you have tickets, you want to go to
the show, you're excited about it. Neil it was Neil Sadak,
the Great Neil Sedaka. Ooh I hear laughter in the
rain or something. No, but we decided, look, we're not
going to go to shows featuring our seventies, eighties, nineties
heroes anymore.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Really, combination of lack of passion, you know, going through
the motions.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well, that's interesting. I did not.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I had the opposite experience scene Eagles. They were like,
it felt like it could have been nineteen seventy eight.
I insist on calling them some eagles still. Uh, never
forget Glenn Frye anyway, And sometimes it's that they're in
the sort of venue that doesn't know how to do sound.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
For rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Like the show we did on Friday night, it was
just the sound was so muddy.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Uh it just wasn't great, but you know it was
it was. It was good.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I mean, I've seen older ax where it was like
I said, Dwight, Dwight yoakum recently, he's seventy. He was fantastic.
But then I saw an ancient Willie Nelson once and
it was like he didn't He did not care at
all that I had driven there and paid to see him.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I mean, I was not on his mind in the
least your hard earned dollars. Yeah yeah, uh so.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Anyway, but we got home the next day after staying overnight.
Don't drive drunk, folks, and I decided in the afternoon
Saturday afternoon, I had time to do a fairly simple
plumbing repair. And I have I've done this sort of
thing dozens of times in my life. Back when we
were young and poor. I did virtually everything because we
(33:10):
couldn't afford to hire people. But I admit I was
tired and and and you have to remember our house
is in the midst of a major remodel. The floors
have just been redone one coat of like the lacquer
or whatever they put on the wood floors. One coat
has been done. And so I I go to do
this fairly simple, uh plumbing job. It was a toilet
(33:32):
repair thing, and and I realized halfway through, wow, that
that part is I don't want to reinstall that it
doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I need to swap it out for a new one.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
And I don't have time to go because we've got
dinner reservations, and you know, a to hell with it.
I'm just gonna put everything back together and and I'll
do it another day. And so I put almost everything
back together, eh boy, And and and then turn the
uh the water pressure back and then go down to
a different part of the house so Judy and I
(34:04):
can work on the New York Times Crossroad puzzle together,
which is one.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Of the things we enjoy doing together.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
And after about ten minutes of that, I thought, you know,
dinner's coming up, I should take a shower. Blah blah blah,
so and seriously as solid ten minutes, maybe fifteen at
past and I go off to walk to where our
clothes are because we're like ghettoed into a corner of
our house because of the whole remodel thing.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
And I hear from upstairs.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
I hear downstairs not dripping, more splashing of water on
the hardwood, and I uttered a two word obscenity, kind
of a funny one.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Holy f. What does that mean? What would a holy
F be? I don't know in what sense would it be? Holy?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
I say it semi regularly, but I yeah, anyway, So
I uttered that, and luckily my first thought was, oh
my god, it's got to be the toilet thing. And
I rushed back and turned off the valve in the bathroom,
which was now full of water. Then I carreene downstairs,
I've got to go like outside and around because everything's
tarped off, and there our newly redone kitchen all you know,
(35:09):
it's not quite done yet, but just a huge pool
of water and just pouring out of the ceiling. Oh crap,
Oh man, I emptied one pc he didn't get back in.
I emptied the whole dictionary of obscenities then and screamed
for my wife, and by god, every towel in the
house was put to use, several buckets and trash cans
and the rest of it. And called the contractor and oh,
(35:32):
what a nightmare. But luckily he said, look, it's here
and gone. It's not like it's going gone on for
weeks and there's mold and stuff like that. He said,
it's fine. The pain will take care of it. And
the floor guys aren't done. He'll be fine. But oh
my god, there's no fixing.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Stupid.
Speaker 10 (35:47):
No.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
As we've talked about it before, that's one of the
worst things you learn as an adult that when you
screw up, Wow, Dad's not gonna yell at me or
anything like that. I just have to pay.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
For everything, you know, I've I've a final accepted my
brain as it is, the strengths and weaknesses. But just
as a general guideline, absent minded people should not do plumbing.
You can get it away with a lot of sins.
In home repair, but plumbing. Plumbing justice always happens.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Plumbing justice.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
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