December 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Trump on the economy & affordability
- Portland screamers & D.O.G.E.
- DeSantis declares C.A.I.R. a terrorist organization & most popular dog breeds
- New nuclear power plants
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty arm Strong and
Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I do want to talk about the economy, sir, here
at home, And I wonder what grade you would give?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
A plus A plus, A plus plus plus plus plus.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's Trump's grade of how well they've done on the
economy so far this year in an interview, A plus
plus plus. Typical Trump sort of salesmanship of just you know, uh,
always spin everything the best direction.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I suppose why not?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But so he did. He started travel around the country
at these rallies. He's going to do a bunch of them.
And the White House said yesterday he's gonna campaign this
next year like it's twenty twenty four for the presidential election,
for the mid terms.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, it's worth pointing out the reason he's doing that
is because most Americans perception of the economy is definitely
not a plus plus Saussauslaus right, And I suppose you
might as well try to win the House.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I've never quite understood in the in modern politics, why
we treat this the way we do. It's practically an
axiom that you win the presidency and then the other
party wins the House the next election. I mean, it
practically happens every single time. So it's you know, whenever
they describe it, will the Democrats take the House?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, they're supposed to. That's the way it works. That's
the way we do our politics for the past like
forty years. So okay, oh, you want truthful and reasonable media.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
If they don't, it would be weird. So for them
doing it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I always want the second sentence, The Democrats win the House,
and that means what it means. It's a rejection of
the da da dah blah. Though. Right, although if you know,
if an administration is kicking ass and doing great things,
it doesn't you know, necessarily lose the House, but it's
much more likely. Yeah, we like gridlock.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I think these countries only time a new president lost
the House in the last thirty or forty years was
after nine to eleven. Right now, it ain't like back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We're old, but.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Democrats held onto the House for like half a century.
That's why when Newton the Republicans took it back in
ninety four, it was such a big deal because it hadn't.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Been that way, but ever since then president wins and
then the other party wins. Okay, so big deal. It
doesn't mean freaking anything. Quit predicting the history of America
based on this one midterm election. So I don't find
it very exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Trump's situation, though, is and I don't know how much
of it motivates him. Here is that everybody believes if
the Democrats take back the House, which they're supposed to historically,
they will impeach him, and then he'll be dealing with that,
and that'll muck up his last couple of years. It'll
be hard to get anything done. In fact, Democrats sick now,
(03:11):
it's almost gonna do nothing. I suppose executive orders here
and there, but each man, Oh my god, I can't
live through another impeachment.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I just can't. You seem to be suggesting there will
just be one. How about two or three impeachments? Oh
my god, that's probably right. Oh you know, I came
across a really interesting thought by Gabe Fleischer writes, excuse
me for the Free press. Has the Democratic Tea Party arrived?
(03:40):
And he's describing how this moment for the Democratic Party
is very very much like the Tea Party. You got
two thirds of Democrats say their own party makes them frustrated,
they don't like the leadership anymore. All those numbers are
really rising. Only twenty nine percent of Democrats say their
party makes them proud. Then there's desire for the party
to fight rather than compromise the government shutdowns. There's even
(04:05):
been some equivalent of the grassroots Tea Party protests and
the No Kings protests down to the use of costumes. Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, my takeaway on that would be so uh a
Tea Party got going in twenty ten and then five
years later Donald Trump becomes the nominator party. Does that
mean we're a couple of years away from the Democrats
nominating somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Really really, really different.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
In that they're just fed up with their own party. Yeah,
maybe definitely.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
They point out the flip side of that though, was,
and I remember this at the time, there are at
least three twenty ten Senate campaigns that were seen as
very winnable for Republicans. Yeah, until Tea Party wackadows and
we're huge supporters of the Tea Party. Okay with these
candidates though, well, no, exactly that's the problem with like
a super enthusiastic movement. Sometimes it's the person who's the
(04:57):
most that that everybody in that movement says, that's our candidate.
And you try to say, wait, they have no chops,
they say wacky stuff, they're busted for shoplifting like two
weeks ago whatever. But because they're the purest distillation of
your movement, your movement says, that's the one for us.
And whether it's Christine O'Donnell and Delaware, Sharon Angle and
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Nevada U and Ken Buck in Colorado, they beat the
more conventional GOP people in primaries and then lost a
winnable race, and they're they're pointing out that the Democrats
have got all sorts of whack of doodles like that
that Graham Platner guy in Maine with the Nazi tattoos
(05:39):
and just h he went kook no. But he's running
against the more establishment to candidate. Uh. And you got
a handful of others of that ilk. And you know
Jasmine Crockett, for instance. They're never gonna win Texas anyway.
But Jasmine Crockett, who is a con woman and a
race baiter and an Instagram whack dude, please, blind, bad
(06:01):
built bush body says you. I don't think you can
see right because you're big fake eyelashes. There's sagging your
eyes or whatever margin. Everyone knows it, and everyone knows
that anyway, she's probably gonna win against a more conventional candidate,
so they may blow a bunch of winnable races just
for the fervor of the the woke left and the
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race baiton left.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I want more of those kind of conversations, real house
members of Orange County sort of.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I want more of that sort of stuff. You know,
it's already half a joke. Let's just go all the way.
So I did my big wind up and never got
to my pitch.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So Donald Trump traveling across the country doing all these rallies,
started last night in Pennsylvania. He's going to do it
clear up to the election, and lots of this. Here's
one of his big lines from last night.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
But they have a new word, you know, they always
have a hoax. The new word is affordability. So they
look at the camera and they say this your there's
all about affordability. Now they never talk about it, and
I can't say affordability hoax because I agree the prices
were too I can't go to hoax because they'll misconstrue that.
(07:11):
But they use the word affordability, and that's their only word.
They say affordability, and everyone says, oh, that must mean
Trump has high pricious. Now our prices are coming down tremendously.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I think Donald Trump is a master at the rallies.
He's one of the best like public politicians in the
history of the country. But going around mocking the word
affordability is a terrible idea, as opposed to pivoting immediately
to the nature of inflation and how Biden oversaw the
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jacking up of the prices.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And they're trying to turn it around. I just I
just can't believe he's going with that angle. That yeah,
that word. That's a real word, and it's a real problem,
and I think about it every Day's sick yeah, ish, yeah,
you know. We frequently clashed slightly on this the extent
(08:11):
to which some aspects of Trump's personality and presentation are
why he has been successful, or, to my point of view,
more often he has been successful in spite of them,
and he's much better at running against the idiocy of Democrats,
(08:32):
and there's plenty plenty to run against than to defend
his own record. He's just not good at it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And the Fed is expected to lower interest rates today,
but it's not going to be an unanimous vote of
the twelve members.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
They think it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Like eight four to lower interest rates, but the other
four saying, hey, inflation was worse last month than a
year ago. We don't want inflation to come back. Lowering
interest rates is going to bring inflation back. I hope
they're wrong, because we are going to lower.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
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Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't want the interest rate to go down and
make inflation worse. If that's what happens, that is there
anything I can do to stop that?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Me as an individual, I really don't want that. I
don't want to buy older beaver pelts or something I
don't want it personally, and I don't want to. I
don't want what it's going to do for our politics.
If inflation becomes like noticeable again in a daily conversation, man,
that is the only thing that's gonna matter this next year.
Oh yeah, yeah, politically speaking, inflation eclipses everything else. God,
(10:47):
i'd say, oh, what are we going to get into next?
There's so much to say? Oh Ayatola Kameni Khamani kame
and E has started tweeting in favor of women's rights,
criticizing the West. How funny is that in many Western
countries today, he tweets, women are paid less than men
for doing the same work. That's how they are today,
(11:07):
which is totally unjust. This guy has women dragged off
the street and beaten and raped for showing their hair,
and he's criticizing the West for the alleged gender graph.
That's hilarious. More on that to come. Elon Musk did
an interview yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
He was asked a lot about Doge and whether or
not he thought it was a success, and his answers
were both depressing and refreshingly honest, I thought, and we
can get to that also coming upstate here Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What is that you're wondering. That's a bunch of idiots.
It's a bunch of hirlics off cliffs, bunch of idiots
that should be hurled off cliffs and make those noises.
It's a bunch of idiots in Portland who get together
every week and scream it out how much they hate Trump.
(12:09):
Have some kids, and you won't have time for this crap.
I don't even have the energy to respond to that.
How Portland does that? Oh? And look how enlightened you are.
You're screaming about Trump? Why because you don't like him?
And you probably think what he's the new hitler. That's intriguing.
Good lord, I don't even have the energy.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So Elon Musk did an interview yesterday and he was
asked about DOGE. He gets asked about lots of things
because he does lots of things as a world's richest man.
He's no longer convinced his crusade to clean up government
waste through the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE,
was worth the chaos and unleashed.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I can see why he would think that.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
He's deeply unsure whether his high profile stint running Washington's
most memorable agency actually worked, says.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
A New York Post.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
In a wide ranging and at times philosophical interview on
some podcast I had never heard of, he said, there
was like probably one hundred maybe two hundred billion dollars
worth of zombie payments per year, he said, noting dogs
shut down only a fraction of it. Those are their
payments that are go out for things that either don't
exist or shouldn't exist, and everybody knows they shouldn't exist,
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haven't been closed down.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Officially yet or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And they got about a you know, a tiny percentage
of it shut down, he said.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Cutting off even that much cash came with serious blowback.
If you stop money going to political corruption, they will
lash out big time. They really want to keep the
money flowing, he said. He said, I wouldn't say I
was super illusioned to begin with. He was asking if
he was disillusioned. I wouldn't say I was super illusioned
to begin with, he shrugged, before launching into a blistering
critique of government spending. Despite the heavy political talk, the
(13:52):
X owner frequently veered into the personal. He confessed that
AI nightmares still jolt him. Awake any days in a row. Wow, Well, if.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You're twenty percent convinced that something you're building is going
to destroy humankind, which he is, I could see.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Why maybe you'd wake up worried about that. I have
not had an AI nightmare as yet. I had a
radio nightmare last night. What was it was? Oh, trying
to hook up some equipment or something like that, trying
to get the microphones to work on the show and
I couldn't or whatever. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I've got a lot of loose ends in my life
right now. I'm having trouble getting to work the way
I want them to work, family structuring, all these different
sort of things.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It was clearly that I just couldn't get a task accomplished.
The frustration of this is not coming together with the
way I wanted to. I think that was great. Yeah,
or I ate spicy food. There is more of gravy
than the grave about you. That's a quote from a
(14:55):
Christmas carol. And the nature of diet versus bad dreams.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
There's two things interesting I thought in that Elon Musk interview.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
One the fact that he like lots of people, like
lots of normal people who touch Washington, d C. And
of other things to do in their lives. They realize
there's no fixing this swamp. You know, there are other
people that go there and think, I need to be
part of this.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That's how I'm going to become rich, and they do
lots and lots of people. But he's already rich, so
he doesn't need to do that. He just gave it
a world and thought, Man, people go nuts when you
try to cut anything, including things that are completely worthless.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
He talks about.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
How, you know, if I hadn't done that, people wouldn't
be setting my cars on fire.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So I kind of wish I hadn't gotten involved. Yeah,
you know, it's I think it's way more interesting than
it seems, way more significant than it seems on the surface.
That if I'm part of the swamp, profiting from it
mightily and spreading out money and enhancing my own wealth
(15:58):
and power fiscal responsibility even over there doesn't affect me directly.
It's a zombie program. You know, whatever you're gonna fight,
it reminds me the Omni cause where you got you know,
Native American lesbians standing up for Palestinian terrorists and whatever.
(16:20):
You can't let anybody cut anything. Ever, Well, it's a
it's a call for fiscal responsibility. I mean, that is
the penicillin that would end your you know, infection in DC. Sure,
it's an example of they came for the payouts to
dead people social Security checks and I said nothing, right.
And the next thing, they came for the Department of
the Interior whatever that does, and I said nothing exactly. Yeah,
(16:44):
And they came for my scam and there was no
one left to fight for me. It's profoundly discouraging too, Yes,
it is. And and I forgot to mention this. So
I saw this portrayed in a couple of different mainstream organizations.
Is kind of like a huh, he got hit. Is
kind of showed him exactly. We showed him.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Dare try to step in and cut anything out of
the government.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
What is wrong with you? Yeah, that's another interesting question.
When tribalism leads people to defend the indefensible, I mean
literally indefensible. You cannot with a straight face in favor
of government waste. I don't understand how being a progressive
fits in with making sure dead people get their Social
Security checks. I don't get it. Since knee jerk tribalism
(17:31):
like I was talking about. You know, I've got a
really really good, thorough, interesting, thought provoking description of what's
going on with the whole Obamacare subsidy debate right now.
And it's the sort of coverage you won't get anywhere else.
And part of me doesn't want to even bother. Once again, Michael,
(17:53):
it's number two cry for help, second clime for help
in one show. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
cry for I'm through with this crap. I think we
got to do a wellness check. I'm gonna call someone
during the break, call anybody you want who gives a crap.
It's all for not We'll I'll be dead soon. What now,
I'm more to come. The most popular dogs that a
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Biraka has changed stay with us, I could Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Manhattan Federal Judge Paul Engelmeyer reproved the release of all
sealed grand jury transcripts and evidence related to the indictment
and eventual conviction of Galain Maxwell. He warns anyone hoping
for new bombshells will be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So the judge that has seen the as yet unseen
Maxwell documents says there ain't nothing to see here, right,
But they're out, so pour through them and then hit
me with some of that great stuff, like those pictures
from Epstein Island.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
They came out last week in which Colin Joe's joke
was I remember it being nicer than that. Wow. Wow.
Ron DeSantis just designated care the Muslim Brotherhood is foreign
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terrorist organizations, irreconcilable with foundational American principles. That's what we
were talking about yesterday at length. Is Islam digestible for
the West. Certainly there are some Muslim people who are.
But Islam is a totalizing philosophy of life. Does it
Can it meld with Western civilization? An intriguing question. You
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want to hear more on that grab yesterday's podcast. But
DeSantis executive order said the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamist ideologies irreconcilable
with foundational American principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness reflected in the Declaration of Independence of the
United States Constitution, and the United States Constitution goes into
some detail. What do you say about care Care and
(20:06):
it's Flora chapter vowed to pursue legal action against the state,
arguing that DeSantis order is defamatory and unconstitutional. Oh, sounds
like an islamophobe to be That's ridiculous. DeSantis move allows
law enforcement to investigate both organizations activities in the state
and undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities in
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Flora by the terrorist organization. I think that's probably because
he's responding to the Free Beacon report. I mentioned yesterday
that Kerr's political advocacy arm is operating without the proper licenses.
It's violating the law in the twenty two states that
operates raising money. That lack of legal authority could mean
it's guilty wire fraud, deceptive solicitation, false statements to the irs,
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in many other things that should be interesting. Can Executive
Their executive director, by the way, after October seventh, said
he was happy to see the massacre.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yes, can I guess some of the most popular dog
you're about to tell us about?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, I'll bet you'll get it because you're you've got
your finger on the pulse of American culture. I don't
know about that.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I just I just know a number of people from
a certain age group that have golden doodles.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It's an excellent guess, an excellent guess. I think everybody
I know what a golden doodle says. It's out of control.
But yeah, yeah, see getting the hot dog not not
a hot dog, which is a delicious sausage tree. Hot
dogs are dogs anyway, getting the hot dog, you are
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stepping into the lions den too of the animals in
this metaphor, because we're very confusing, the disruptive got a
whole damn zoo going on here, the disreptable raiders of America.
All they pay attention to is what it's the hot dog.
Then they crank them out as fast as they can.
Never mind, Dad was a psychopathic poodle and you know whatever,
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Mom couldn't control their bowels. They just cranked out these
dogs as fast as they can.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I don't want anybody's feelings, but I just I have
never understood getting like the in dog.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I mean it just.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I just think you see it, neighbor has it, or
on the street and you think, oh my god, that's
a cool looking dog, and particularly if it's friendly or whatever.
Yeah it is, it catches on It's like clothes. What
is your dog, Katie. It's a he's a have a knees.
I have a knees. But I can confirm that most doodles,
the mixes are psychos. Yeah, poodles are kind of psychos. Yeah, Candy,
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I don't know. I don't don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I've what percentage of people like would never have a
mutt or crossbread dog? And I don't know a lot?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
And why? Well, it's funny because the purebred dog world
talks about itself constantly and has shows the mutt world.
Uh is like, yeah, I don't have time for that.
I just like dogs. Hmm, that's interesting. We don't dress
up in fancy clothes and trot around rings in Manhattan. Anyway.
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The reason this came up is Steve karnapki a cheerful
fell on NBC. It's talking about the most popular breeds
of dogs. Michael, can we start please with clip number twelve?
All right?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
So the judges have their favorites at the dog show.
What about Americans at their homes all across the country.
The most popular breed? We check out of this every year.
What's the rankings for the most popular dog breed in
the country? And look at this third straight year now
it is the French bulldog clocking in at number one.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
This was a big change.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
A couple of years ago they dethrown the Labrador Retrievers,
who had held that number one position for thirty one years.
But now it's the French bulldog. This top five Golden Retrievers,
German shepherds, and this standard poodle of that top five
is the same as last year.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
The standard poodle. I don't see those very often. You
see those other dogs I see all over the place,
but I don't see many standard poodles. No, that's the
big poodle. I almost never see one of those. I
see people walking their dogs at the airport, in the
hotels all the time. Yeah, I'm racking my memory. We've
got a lot of folks walk dogs in my neighborhood.
But I'll see in a standard poodle. Yeah, oh, number five.
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They said must be in somebody must be in like
Manhattan apartments or something like that. So like rappers and
singers are big with the French bulldogs, right, didn't isn't
that what Lady Gaga got kidnapped? Yeah, French bulldogs. I
see those every day. Those are very popular. French bulldogs.
They want fifteen weeks a year off. They're constantly striking.
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They don't bathe right exactly. There's more to the dog thing.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Here's what I was looking forward to showing you. It's
the names. And how about this not just the names.
Who doesn't love a good map?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Here?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
This is the most popular dog name by state. And
some interesting things here. First of all, a lot of
dogs named Luna and Bella. I don't want to trip
over our friend right here, but you could see here
the West coast Luna in a little bit on the
east coast too, down to Florida most popular name. And
then a ton of this dark green that is Bella.
And then there are some states that are outliers. What
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is South Dakota the most popular dog name?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It's Winter.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
What in North Dakota and Delaware have in common? Not
much except a lot of dogs named Cooper. How about this?
You know Wisconsin. You think of Wisconsin as dairy land.
A lot of couys named Daisy. They also name a
lot of dogs Daisy. There, Buddy in Hawaii, spot in Alaska.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Wow, you know it occurs to me. Steve Karanaky is
the anti Joe Getty. We've got these really important topics
that I've got all sorts of information, and they just
I'm so disgusted. I have no interest in talking about it.
Steve Karnaki's beside himself with excitement telling you which dogames
are most popular North Dakota. He can't wait to tell
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you that, so Spot hangs on is the most popular
dog name in Alaska. Way to go Alaska. Yes, Buddy.
In Hawaii, Buddy's a good name for a dog. Cooper,
our our neighbor's dog is named Cooper. Cute little fella
a b Sean Freeze. I believe you know what's interesting
is he does not give a damn. He is the
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most apathetic dog I've ever met. You're gonna come up
and say hello, he doesn't care. I'll give you a
couple of nice pets. Pet me or don't. I don't care,
he says, he is the most apathetic. That poor dog
has serious on WII. My dog is like, Hey, there's people,
there's people. You want to go talk to those people.
Let's go talk to those people. Oh but those people
want to pet me. That'd be great. Let's go talk
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to these people. My buddy had a dog named Cooper,
and he was the exact same way. That's so weirdly. Yeah,
we used to call him Coop and he would just
sit there and look at us like what tef off,
Katie your dogs, Frank right, Frank Frank, I like that
Franklin when he's in trouble. Of course, our dog.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We have many dogs out at the farm, but big Zie,
who is an Australian Shepherd, he's slowed way down. I
think he didn't done have that much longer. He's around
for over a decade. But anyway, if every dog was
like him, everyone would have a dog.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Everyone. I mean, he's the greatest dog that's ever been.
Then I've had other dogs that if every dog was
like that, no one would have a dog. Nobody, nobody
would want this, right right, Let's not get into your
various dog philosophies, because this has been a lovely conversation
until now. But you're highly controversial and perfectly makes sense. No, no, no,
(27:49):
not again.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
But so I remember one we got big Zie a
dozen years ago or whatever, Australian Shepherd brew healer and.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh you're gonna hate that dog is like horrible because
they're a high energy. I've found because I've had so
many damn dogs with not only is every you know,
breed different within the breeds, dogs have such different personalities,
so you can one percent, you know, you can have
several that are horrible and several that are great. So
I don't know, I don't know how you figure that
out ahead of time. You just get hoped to get lucky.
I guess. Yeah. When I made the idiotic miscalculation of
(28:19):
getting two dogs from the same litter a number of
years ago, it was a while to me how different
Onyx and Ace were. Just going went to college. You
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Speaker 2 (29:38):
I've leaned big dogs, but since UH ended up with
a pug, sort a long story, there's a there's a
benefit to like a ten pound dog.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's like barking at the pest guy that was here
the other day. You just pick them up, take them
somewhere else here. We're here, Where're going over there? You
know it's probably partly my manly self image is I
make lumberjacks look like balleted answers. I mean, I'm just
just a manly, manly man. I've always liked big dogs too.
You know, you're hunting type dogs and stuff. You only
have those like what are those one kind of pit
(30:08):
bulls that you know they wear chains around their neck?
You you do that also? Oh yeah, I walked down
the street with like six of them. Yeah. But you
remember Alan, our old program director, years and years and
years ago. He would once in a while bring in
his little, uh what was that dog, little white fur
ball Shitzu. I just like saying it, Oh boy, everybody
(30:30):
does It might have been a peak and I can't remember,
but it was. It was the sweetest little dog. I mean,
it was incredibly endearing. Sometimes he'd have it in his office,
and I got to admit, I thought, whoa, I've got
to question everything I've held, dear. I don't know if
i'd use it to protect my meth lab, but charming
in its own way. No, indeed, no indeed, But I
(30:52):
tell you what I've You know, they say big house,
big bills, which is something you learn is perhaps you
gain a bit of financial come in your life. Big dog,
big bills and big problems like when you're traveling and
looking for somewhere someone to take care of it, and
that sort of thing too. So the idea of a
little dog I could tuck away and you know, it
(31:13):
seems kind of nice. But anyway, love dogs, love dogs.
Moving along, it.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Looks like the Jews have taken over Turning Point, Usa. Oh,
for God's sake.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
According to a number of people, including Candace Owans, God
really really really unplug the internet Turning Point. I will
miss searching for things. I will miss shopping online.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
That was Charlie Kirk's you know, motivate young people Christian
thingy has been hijacked by state actors under the guise
of faith to infiltrate the Evangelical church and push a
US Zionist centered agenda. And if you want more than that,
you can go to candas Owans Twitter feed. Get some
(31:59):
shame you, charlotteon I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I'm ready. Either send me catalogs all my favorite products
that I buy online on a regular basis, or I
will just write to you, dear sirs. I am inquiring
to see as to the possibility of getting your protein
boss delivered to my home and closed, find a check
for you know, whatever it takes. Unplug the damn Internet. Okay,
(32:25):
we got more on the way next.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
After just ten months, our border is secure, our spirit
is restored, Inflation is wages or prices are down. Our
nation is strong, America is respected again, and the United
States is back.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's Donald J. Trump toward the end of his big
speech last night in small town Pennsylvania. It's part of
the whole. Yes, we care about your kitchen table affordability
stuff tour. Yeah, we're critical of the length of it
and the rambling lack of message coherence, but there was
some really good stuff in there. I think play sixty
(33:08):
four fir Us Michael. Now, after just ten months.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
In office, I'm please to report that America is winning again,
Pennsylvania's prospering again, and I will not rest until this
Commonwealth is wealthier and stronger than ever before.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah. I thought you might have mentioned energy in that clip.
You didn't. But the stuff on energy was really really
good and smart and practical, and you know, not just
fossil fuels that are going to continue to be a
huge part of everybody's economy. Until we have better green technology.
It's just not ready. But the other thing I thought
was interesting is the Department of Energy is just announced
that they're preparing to finance up to ten nuclear power
(33:48):
plants and an effort to usher in nuclear energy renaissance.
According to the fabulous Energy Secretary of Chris Right, ten
new nuclear power plants. Yeah, yeah, I seriously think Chris
Wright is a great Secretary of Energy. But the agency
will use its rebranded Office of Energy Dominance Financing. How
(34:09):
trumpy is that to provide low interest loans for reactors.
It's going to be a nudge to an industry that
struggled for decades to get new projects up and running.
Those are a lot of initial costs. Do we know
where the ten are going to be? Uh no? I
don't think they mentioned any specific sites. Uh no.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
The time I mentioned AI and its voracious needs for power,
the town of Glowing Yellow, Oklahoma. Or listen to you,
what are you, Jackson Brown? Over here? You, Bruce Springstein,
have a baby with six arms? Nevada? Oh, for God's sake,
why would you traffic in that foolishness? I can't believe it?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
One one out the whole rock stars against nuclear power
thing one out and we have been We could have
adopted that many many decades ago, and you green people
and perfected.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, yeah, go with nuclear power. That's the answer. Man.
The progressives of the seventies and eighties lectured us over
and over again, how we must stick with fossil fuels
and don't go with nuclear power, the only form of
energy that contains its waste. Don't do that. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
(35:24):
You just look. I like musicians and poets and dreamers.
I really do, through my whole life I have. But
I don't want you in charge. I really don't want
you in charge. You're simply swayed by your emotions from
moment to moment. So anyway, I think this is a
great program. I think nuclear power is an answer to
(35:45):
a lot of our problems, and it's very very green.
So yeah, build them, bring them. You could paint the
big stacks, the cooling towers, maybe like uh, pleasant murals
or something like that in the local high school kids.
Do them here a lot, make them like the sphere
in Vegas, or like an eyeball or so oh yeah yeah,
(36:07):
or you know these days, you could cover them with
really cheap LEDs right like they did with it. It
was at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco for a
while was covered with LEDs and they have different patterns
and colors and stuff like. It was kind of fond
on us.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Well, that reminds me there's a house down the street
in my neighborhood Christmas House that went huge this year.
You can see it from blocks away. It's like the
sun's coming up and it's mostly those led kind of lights. Yeah,
and I don't know what costs. But anyway, they've got
a programmed to music and it tells you which radio
station to tune to, and you tune to the Christmas
(36:40):
music station and then you can see that it's flashing
to the beat of whatever song you're listening to. But man,
it was so bright and just so much going on.
I mean, I'm not epileptic, but I felt like I
was gonna bite my tongue off or something.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
And it's just a little much. And I thought, what
would you like to live here with all that? All
the time. I had my shades drawing all the time, yeah, kidding,
the curtains drawn. Yeah, it's interesting that they would like
promote a radio station brought to you by Q one
oh six or whatever. The heck.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, that's a common thing to do if you really
go big, have it tied into the local Christmas station
so that your music people turn it on their cars
as they drive by and you see that it's moving
to the beat.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Very cool. So Jesus loves that sort of thing. Oh, absolutely,
that's known. It's right in the Bible. Uh, we do
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
I do want to talk about the economy, sir, here
at home, And I wonder what grade you would give?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
A plus A plus, A plus plus plus plus plus.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's Trump's grade of how well they've done on the
economy so far this year in an interview, A plus
plus plus. Typical Trump sort of salesmanship of just you know, uh,
always spin everything the best direction.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I suppose why not?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But so he did. He started travel around the country
at these rallies. He's going to do a bunch of them.
And the White House said yesterday he's gonna campaign this
next year like it's twenty twenty four for the presidential election,
for the mid terms.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, it's worth pointing out the reason he's doing that
is because most Americans perception of the economy is definitely
not a plus plus Saussauslaus right, And I suppose you
might as well try to win the House.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I've never quite understood in the in modern politics, why
we treat this the way we do. It's practically an
axiom that you win the presidency and then the other
party wins the House the next election. I mean, it
practically happens every single time. So it's you know, whenever
they describe it, will the Democrats take the House?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, they're supposed to. That's the way it works. That's
the way we do our politics for the past like
forty years. So okay, oh, you want truthful and reasonable media.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
If they don't, it would be weird. So for them
doing it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I always want the second sentence, The Democrats win the House,
and that means what it means. It's a rejection of
the da da dah blah. Though. Right, although if you know,
if an administration is kicking ass and doing great things,
it doesn't you know, necessarily lose the House, but it's
much more likely. Yeah, we like gridlock.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I think these countries only time a new president lost
the House in the last thirty or forty years was
after nine to eleven. Right now, it ain't like back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We're old, but.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Democrats held onto the House for like half a century.
That's why when Newton the Republicans took it back in
ninety four, it was such a big deal because it hadn't.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Been that way, but ever since then president wins and
then the other party wins. Okay, so big deal. It
doesn't mean freaking anything. Quit predicting the history of America
based on this one midterm election. So I don't find
it very exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Trump's situation, though, is and I don't know how much
of it motivates him. Here is that everybody believes if
the Democrats take back the House, which they're supposed to historically,
they will impeach him, and then he'll be dealing with that,
and that'll muck up his last couple of years. It'll
be hard to get anything done. In fact, Democrats sick now,
(03:11):
it's almost gonna do nothing. I suppose executive orders here
and there, but each man, Oh my god, I can't
live through another impeachment.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I just can't. You seem to be suggesting there will
just be one. How about two or three impeachments? Oh
my god, that's probably right. Oh you know, I came
across a really interesting thought by Gabe Fleischer writes, excuse
me for the Free press. Has the Democratic Tea Party arrived?
(03:40):
And he's describing how this moment for the Democratic Party
is very very much like the Tea Party. You got
two thirds of Democrats say their own party makes them frustrated,
they don't like the leadership anymore. All those numbers are
really rising. Only twenty nine percent of Democrats say their
party makes them proud. Then there's desire for the party
to fight rather than compromise the government shutdowns. There's even
(04:05):
been some equivalent of the grassroots Tea Party protests and
the No Kings protests down to the use of costumes. Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, my takeaway on that would be so uh a
Tea Party got going in twenty ten and then five
years later Donald Trump becomes the nominator party. Does that
mean we're a couple of years away from the Democrats
nominating somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Really really, really different.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
In that they're just fed up with their own party. Yeah,
maybe definitely.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
They point out the flip side of that though, was,
and I remember this at the time, there are at
least three twenty ten Senate campaigns that were seen as
very winnable for Republicans. Yeah, until Tea Party wackadows and
we're huge supporters of the Tea Party. Okay with these
candidates though, well, no, exactly that's the problem with like
a super enthusiastic movement. Sometimes it's the person who's the
(04:57):
most that that everybody in that movement says, that's our candidate.
And you try to say, wait, they have no chops,
they say wacky stuff, they're busted for shoplifting like two
weeks ago whatever. But because they're the purest distillation of
your movement, your movement says, that's the one for us.
And whether it's Christine O'Donnell and Delaware, Sharon Angle and
(05:19):
Nevada U and Ken Buck in Colorado, they beat the
more conventional GOP people in primaries and then lost a
winnable race, and they're they're pointing out that the Democrats
have got all sorts of whack of doodles like that
that Graham Platner guy in Maine with the Nazi tattoos
(05:39):
and just h he went kook no. But he's running
against the more establishment to candidate. Uh. And you got
a handful of others of that ilk. And you know
Jasmine Crockett, for instance. They're never gonna win Texas anyway.
But Jasmine Crockett, who is a con woman and a
race baiter and an Instagram whack dude, please, blind, bad
(06:01):
built bush body says you. I don't think you can
see right because you're big fake eyelashes. There's sagging your
eyes or whatever margin. Everyone knows it, and everyone knows
that anyway, she's probably gonna win against a more conventional candidate,
so they may blow a bunch of winnable races just
for the fervor of the the woke left and the
(06:23):
race baiton left.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I want more of those kind of conversations, real house
members of Orange County sort of.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I want more of that sort of stuff. You know,
it's already half a joke. Let's just go all the way.
So I did my big wind up and never got
to my pitch.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So Donald Trump traveling across the country doing all these rallies,
started last night in Pennsylvania. He's going to do it
clear up to the election, and lots of this. Here's
one of his big lines from last night.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
But they have a new word, you know, they always
have a hoax. The new word is affordability. So they
look at the camera and they say this your there's
all about affordability. Now they never talk about it, and
I can't say affordability hoax because I agree the prices
were too I can't go to hoax because they'll misconstrue that.
(07:11):
But they use the word affordability, and that's their only word.
They say affordability, and everyone says, oh, that must mean
Trump has high pricious. Now our prices are coming down tremendously.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I think Donald Trump is a master at the rallies.
He's one of the best like public politicians in the
history of the country. But going around mocking the word
affordability is a terrible idea, as opposed to pivoting immediately
to the nature of inflation and how Biden oversaw the
(07:48):
jacking up of the prices.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And they're trying to turn it around. I just I
just can't believe he's going with that angle. That yeah,
that word. That's a real word, and it's a real problem,
and I think about it every Day's sick yeah, ish, yeah,
you know. We frequently clashed slightly on this the extent
(08:11):
to which some aspects of Trump's personality and presentation are
why he has been successful, or, to my point of view,
more often he has been successful in spite of them,
and he's much better at running against the idiocy of Democrats,
(08:32):
and there's plenty plenty to run against than to defend
his own record. He's just not good at it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And the Fed is expected to lower interest rates today,
but it's not going to be an unanimous vote of
the twelve members.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
They think it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Like eight four to lower interest rates, but the other
four saying, hey, inflation was worse last month than a
year ago. We don't want inflation to come back. Lowering
interest rates is going to bring inflation back. I hope
they're wrong, because we are going to lower.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Interest rates this afternoon. Oh boy, we've got a audio
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Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't want the interest rate to go down and
make inflation worse. If that's what happens, that is there
anything I can do to stop that?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Me as an individual, I really don't want that. I
don't want to buy older beaver pelts or something I
don't want it personally, and I don't want to. I
don't want what it's going to do for our politics.
If inflation becomes like noticeable again in a daily conversation, man,
that is the only thing that's gonna matter this next year.
Oh yeah, yeah, politically speaking, inflation eclipses everything else. God,
(10:47):
i'd say, oh, what are we going to get into next?
There's so much to say? Oh Ayatola Kameni Khamani kame
and E has started tweeting in favor of women's rights,
criticizing the West. How funny is that in many Western
countries today, he tweets, women are paid less than men
for doing the same work. That's how they are today,
(11:07):
which is totally unjust. This guy has women dragged off
the street and beaten and raped for showing their hair,
and he's criticizing the West for the alleged gender graph.
That's hilarious. More on that to come. Elon Musk did
an interview yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
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not he thought it was a success, and his answers
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Speaker 1 (11:47):
What is that you're wondering. That's a bunch of idiots.
It's a bunch of hirlics off cliffs, bunch of idiots
that should be hurled off cliffs and make those noises.
It's a bunch of idiots in Portland who get together
every week and scream it out how much they hate Trump.
(12:09):
Have some kids, and you won't have time for this crap.
I don't even have the energy to respond to that.
How Portland does that? Oh? And look how enlightened you are.
You're screaming about Trump? Why because you don't like him?
And you probably think what he's the new hitler. That's intriguing.
Good lord, I don't even have the energy.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So Elon Musk did an interview yesterday and he was
asked about DOGE. He gets asked about lots of things
because he does lots of things as a world's richest man.
He's no longer convinced his crusade to clean up government
waste through the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE,
was worth the chaos and unleashed.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I can see why he would think that.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
He's deeply unsure whether his high profile stint running Washington's
most memorable agency actually worked, says.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
A New York Post.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
In a wide ranging and at times philosophical interview on
some podcast I had never heard of, he said, there
was like probably one hundred maybe two hundred billion dollars
worth of zombie payments per year, he said, noting dogs
shut down only a fraction of it. Those are their
payments that are go out for things that either don't
exist or shouldn't exist, and everybody knows they shouldn't exist,
(13:20):
haven't been closed down.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Officially yet or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And they got about a you know, a tiny percentage
of it shut down, he said.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Cutting off even that much cash came with serious blowback.
If you stop money going to political corruption, they will
lash out big time. They really want to keep the
money flowing, he said. He said, I wouldn't say I
was super illusioned to begin with. He was asking if
he was disillusioned. I wouldn't say I was super illusioned
to begin with, he shrugged, before launching into a blistering
critique of government spending. Despite the heavy political talk, the
(13:52):
X owner frequently veered into the personal. He confessed that
AI nightmares still jolt him. Awake any days in a row. Wow, Well, if.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You're twenty percent convinced that something you're building is going
to destroy humankind, which he is, I could see.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Why maybe you'd wake up worried about that. I have
not had an AI nightmare as yet. I had a
radio nightmare last night. What was it was? Oh, trying
to hook up some equipment or something like that, trying
to get the microphones to work on the show and
I couldn't or whatever. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I've got a lot of loose ends in my life
right now. I'm having trouble getting to work the way
I want them to work, family structuring, all these different
sort of things.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It was clearly that I just couldn't get a task accomplished.
The frustration of this is not coming together with the
way I wanted to. I think that was great. Yeah,
or I ate spicy food. There is more of gravy
than the grave about you. That's a quote from a
(14:55):
Christmas carol. And the nature of diet versus bad dreams.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
There's two things interesting I thought in that Elon Musk interview.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
One the fact that he like lots of people, like
lots of normal people who touch Washington, d C. And
of other things to do in their lives. They realize
there's no fixing this swamp. You know, there are other
people that go there and think, I need to be
part of this.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That's how I'm going to become rich, and they do
lots and lots of people. But he's already rich, so
he doesn't need to do that. He just gave it
a world and thought, Man, people go nuts when you
try to cut anything, including things that are completely worthless.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
He talks about.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
How, you know, if I hadn't done that, people wouldn't
be setting my cars on fire.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So I kind of wish I hadn't gotten involved. Yeah,
you know, it's I think it's way more interesting than
it seems, way more significant than it seems on the surface.
That if I'm part of the swamp, profiting from it
mightily and spreading out money and enhancing my own wealth
(15:58):
and power fiscal responsibility even over there doesn't affect me directly.
It's a zombie program. You know, whatever you're gonna fight,
it reminds me the Omni cause where you got you know,
Native American lesbians standing up for Palestinian terrorists and whatever.
(16:20):
You can't let anybody cut anything. Ever, Well, it's a
it's a call for fiscal responsibility. I mean, that is
the penicillin that would end your you know, infection in DC. Sure,
it's an example of they came for the payouts to
dead people social Security checks and I said nothing, right.
And the next thing, they came for the Department of
the Interior whatever that does, and I said nothing exactly. Yeah,
(16:44):
And they came for my scam and there was no
one left to fight for me. It's profoundly discouraging too, Yes,
it is. And and I forgot to mention this. So
I saw this portrayed in a couple of different mainstream organizations.
Is kind of like a huh, he got hit. Is
kind of showed him exactly. We showed him.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Dare try to step in and cut anything out of
the government.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
What is wrong with you? Yeah, that's another interesting question.
When tribalism leads people to defend the indefensible, I mean
literally indefensible. You cannot with a straight face in favor
of government waste. I don't understand how being a progressive
fits in with making sure dead people get their Social
Security checks. I don't get it. Since knee jerk tribalism
(17:31):
like I was talking about. You know, I've got a
really really good, thorough, interesting, thought provoking description of what's
going on with the whole Obamacare subsidy debate right now.
And it's the sort of coverage you won't get anywhere else.
And part of me doesn't want to even bother. Once again, Michael,
(17:53):
it's number two cry for help, second clime for help
in one show. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
cry for I'm through with this crap. I think we
got to do a wellness check. I'm gonna call someone
during the break, call anybody you want who gives a crap.
It's all for not We'll I'll be dead soon. What now,
I'm more to come. The most popular dogs that a
(18:15):
Biraka has changed stay with us, I could Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Manhattan Federal Judge Paul Engelmeyer reproved the release of all
sealed grand jury transcripts and evidence related to the indictment
and eventual conviction of Galain Maxwell. He warns anyone hoping
for new bombshells will be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So the judge that has seen the as yet unseen
Maxwell documents says there ain't nothing to see here, right,
But they're out, so pour through them and then hit
me with some of that great stuff, like those pictures
from Epstein Island.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
They came out last week in which Colin Joe's joke
was I remember it being nicer than that. Wow. Wow.
Ron DeSantis just designated care the Muslim Brotherhood is foreign
(19:17):
terrorist organizations, irreconcilable with foundational American principles. That's what we
were talking about yesterday at length. Is Islam digestible for
the West. Certainly there are some Muslim people who are.
But Islam is a totalizing philosophy of life. Does it
Can it meld with Western civilization? An intriguing question. You
(19:42):
want to hear more on that grab yesterday's podcast. But
DeSantis executive order said the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamist ideologies irreconcilable
with foundational American principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness reflected in the Declaration of Independence of the
United States Constitution, and the United States Constitution goes into
some detail. What do you say about care Care and
(20:06):
it's Flora chapter vowed to pursue legal action against the state,
arguing that DeSantis order is defamatory and unconstitutional. Oh, sounds
like an islamophobe to be That's ridiculous. DeSantis move allows
law enforcement to investigate both organizations activities in the state
and undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities in
(20:26):
Flora by the terrorist organization. I think that's probably because
he's responding to the Free Beacon report. I mentioned yesterday
that Kerr's political advocacy arm is operating without the proper licenses.
It's violating the law in the twenty two states that
operates raising money. That lack of legal authority could mean
it's guilty wire fraud, deceptive solicitation, false statements to the irs,
(20:49):
in many other things that should be interesting. Can Executive
Their executive director, by the way, after October seventh, said
he was happy to see the massacre.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yes, can I guess some of the most popular dog
you're about to tell us about?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, I'll bet you'll get it because you're you've got
your finger on the pulse of American culture. I don't
know about that.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I just I just know a number of people from
a certain age group that have golden doodles.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It's an excellent guess, an excellent guess. I think everybody
I know what a golden doodle says. It's out of control.
But yeah, yeah, see getting the hot dog not not
a hot dog, which is a delicious sausage tree. Hot
dogs are dogs anyway, getting the hot dog, you are
(21:38):
stepping into the lions den too of the animals in
this metaphor, because we're very confusing, the disruptive got a
whole damn zoo going on here, the disreptable raiders of America.
All they pay attention to is what it's the hot dog.
Then they crank them out as fast as they can.
Never mind, Dad was a psychopathic poodle and you know whatever,
(22:02):
Mom couldn't control their bowels. They just cranked out these
dogs as fast as they can.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I don't want anybody's feelings, but I just I have
never understood getting like the in dog.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I mean it just.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I just think you see it, neighbor has it, or
on the street and you think, oh my god, that's
a cool looking dog, and particularly if it's friendly or whatever.
Yeah it is, it catches on It's like clothes. What
is your dog, Katie. It's a he's a have a knees.
I have a knees. But I can confirm that most doodles,
the mixes are psychos. Yeah, poodles are kind of psychos. Yeah, Candy,
(22:40):
I don't know. I don't don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I've what percentage of people like would never have a
mutt or crossbread dog? And I don't know a lot?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
And why? Well, it's funny because the purebred dog world
talks about itself constantly and has shows the mutt world.
Uh is like, yeah, I don't have time for that.
I just like dogs. Hmm, that's interesting. We don't dress
up in fancy clothes and trot around rings in Manhattan. Anyway.
(23:16):
The reason this came up is Steve karnapki a cheerful
fell on NBC. It's talking about the most popular breeds
of dogs. Michael, can we start please with clip number twelve?
All right?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
So the judges have their favorites at the dog show.
What about Americans at their homes all across the country.
The most popular breed? We check out of this every year.
What's the rankings for the most popular dog breed in
the country? And look at this third straight year now
it is the French bulldog clocking in at number one.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
This was a big change.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
A couple of years ago they dethrown the Labrador Retrievers,
who had held that number one position for thirty one years.
But now it's the French bulldog. This top five Golden Retrievers,
German shepherds, and this standard poodle of that top five
is the same as last year.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
The standard poodle. I don't see those very often. You
see those other dogs I see all over the place,
but I don't see many standard poodles. No, that's the
big poodle. I almost never see one of those. I
see people walking their dogs at the airport, in the
hotels all the time. Yeah, I'm racking my memory. We've
got a lot of folks walk dogs in my neighborhood.
But I'll see in a standard poodle. Yeah, oh, number five.
(24:26):
They said must be in somebody must be in like
Manhattan apartments or something like that. So like rappers and
singers are big with the French bulldogs, right, didn't isn't
that what Lady Gaga got kidnapped? Yeah, French bulldogs. I
see those every day. Those are very popular. French bulldogs.
They want fifteen weeks a year off. They're constantly striking.
(24:49):
They don't bathe right exactly. There's more to the dog thing.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Here's what I was looking forward to showing you. It's
the names. And how about this not just the names.
Who doesn't love a good map?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Here?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
This is the most popular dog name by state. And
some interesting things here. First of all, a lot of
dogs named Luna and Bella. I don't want to trip
over our friend right here, but you could see here
the West coast Luna in a little bit on the
east coast too, down to Florida most popular name. And
then a ton of this dark green that is Bella.
And then there are some states that are outliers. What
(25:23):
is South Dakota the most popular dog name?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It's Winter.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
What in North Dakota and Delaware have in common? Not
much except a lot of dogs named Cooper. How about this?
You know Wisconsin. You think of Wisconsin as dairy land.
A lot of couys named Daisy. They also name a
lot of dogs Daisy. There, Buddy in Hawaii, spot in Alaska.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Wow, you know it occurs to me. Steve Karanaky is
the anti Joe Getty. We've got these really important topics
that I've got all sorts of information, and they just
I'm so disgusted. I have no interest in talking about it.
Steve Karnaki's beside himself with excitement telling you which dogames
are most popular North Dakota. He can't wait to tell
(26:03):
you that, so Spot hangs on is the most popular
dog name in Alaska. Way to go Alaska. Yes, Buddy.
In Hawaii, Buddy's a good name for a dog. Cooper,
our our neighbor's dog is named Cooper. Cute little fella
a b Sean Freeze. I believe you know what's interesting
is he does not give a damn. He is the
(26:24):
most apathetic dog I've ever met. You're gonna come up
and say hello, he doesn't care. I'll give you a
couple of nice pets. Pet me or don't. I don't care,
he says, he is the most apathetic. That poor dog
has serious on WII. My dog is like, Hey, there's people,
there's people. You want to go talk to those people.
Let's go talk to those people. Oh but those people
want to pet me. That'd be great. Let's go talk
(26:45):
to these people. My buddy had a dog named Cooper,
and he was the exact same way. That's so weirdly. Yeah,
we used to call him Coop and he would just
sit there and look at us like what tef off,
Katie your dogs, Frank right, Frank Frank, I like that
Franklin when he's in trouble. Of course, our dog.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We have many dogs out at the farm, but big Zie,
who is an Australian Shepherd, he's slowed way down. I
think he didn't done have that much longer. He's around
for over a decade. But anyway, if every dog was
like him, everyone would have a dog.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Everyone. I mean, he's the greatest dog that's ever been.
Then I've had other dogs that if every dog was
like that, no one would have a dog. Nobody, nobody
would want this, right right, Let's not get into your
various dog philosophies, because this has been a lovely conversation
until now. But you're highly controversial and perfectly makes sense. No, no, no,
(27:49):
not again.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
But so I remember one we got big Zie a
dozen years ago or whatever, Australian Shepherd brew healer and.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh you're gonna hate that dog is like horrible because
they're a high energy. I've found because I've had so
many damn dogs with not only is every you know,
breed different within the breeds, dogs have such different personalities,
so you can one percent, you know, you can have
several that are horrible and several that are great. So
I don't know, I don't know how you figure that
out ahead of time. You just get hoped to get lucky.
I guess. Yeah. When I made the idiotic miscalculation of
(28:19):
getting two dogs from the same litter a number of
years ago, it was a while to me how different
Onyx and Ace were. Just going went to college. You
have to one life of crime right right. It's terrible, said,
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Com code Armstrong. I always liked big dogs my whole life.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I've leaned big dogs, but since UH ended up with
a pug, sort a long story, there's a there's a
benefit to like a ten pound dog.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's like barking at the pest guy that was here
the other day. You just pick them up, take them
somewhere else here. We're here, Where're going over there? You
know it's probably partly my manly self image is I
make lumberjacks look like balleted answers. I mean, I'm just
just a manly, manly man. I've always liked big dogs too.
You know, you're hunting type dogs and stuff. You only
have those like what are those one kind of pit
(30:08):
bulls that you know they wear chains around their neck?
You you do that also? Oh yeah, I walked down
the street with like six of them. Yeah. But you
remember Alan, our old program director, years and years and
years ago. He would once in a while bring in
his little, uh what was that dog, little white fur
ball Shitzu. I just like saying it, Oh boy, everybody
(30:30):
does It might have been a peak and I can't remember,
but it was. It was the sweetest little dog. I mean,
it was incredibly endearing. Sometimes he'd have it in his office,
and I got to admit, I thought, whoa, I've got
to question everything I've held, dear. I don't know if
i'd use it to protect my meth lab, but charming
in its own way. No, indeed, no indeed, But I
(30:52):
tell you what I've You know, they say big house,
big bills, which is something you learn is perhaps you
gain a bit of financial come in your life. Big dog,
big bills and big problems like when you're traveling and
looking for somewhere someone to take care of it, and
that sort of thing too. So the idea of a
little dog I could tuck away and you know, it
(31:13):
seems kind of nice. But anyway, love dogs, love dogs.
Moving along, it.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Looks like the Jews have taken over Turning Point, Usa. Oh,
for God's sake.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
According to a number of people, including Candace Owans, God
really really really unplug the internet Turning Point. I will
miss searching for things. I will miss shopping online.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
That was Charlie Kirk's you know, motivate young people Christian
thingy has been hijacked by state actors under the guise
of faith to infiltrate the Evangelical church and push a
US Zionist centered agenda. And if you want more than that,
you can go to candas Owans Twitter feed. Get some
(31:59):
shame you, charlotteon I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I'm ready. Either send me catalogs all my favorite products
that I buy online on a regular basis, or I
will just write to you, dear sirs. I am inquiring
to see as to the possibility of getting your protein
boss delivered to my home and closed, find a check
for you know, whatever it takes. Unplug the damn Internet. Okay,
(32:25):
we got more on the way next.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
After just ten months, our border is secure, our spirit
is restored, Inflation is wages or prices are down. Our
nation is strong, America is respected again, and the United
States is back.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's Donald J. Trump toward the end of his big
speech last night in small town Pennsylvania. It's part of
the whole. Yes, we care about your kitchen table affordability
stuff tour. Yeah, we're critical of the length of it
and the rambling lack of message coherence, but there was
some really good stuff in there. I think play sixty
(33:08):
four fir Us Michael. Now, after just ten months.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
In office, I'm please to report that America is winning again,
Pennsylvania's prospering again, and I will not rest until this
Commonwealth is wealthier and stronger than ever before.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah. I thought you might have mentioned energy in that clip.
You didn't. But the stuff on energy was really really
good and smart and practical, and you know, not just
fossil fuels that are going to continue to be a
huge part of everybody's economy. Until we have better green technology.
It's just not ready. But the other thing I thought
was interesting is the Department of Energy is just announced
that they're preparing to finance up to ten nuclear power
(33:48):
plants and an effort to usher in nuclear energy renaissance.
According to the fabulous Energy Secretary of Chris Right, ten
new nuclear power plants. Yeah, yeah, I seriously think Chris
Wright is a great Secretary of Energy. But the agency
will use its rebranded Office of Energy Dominance Financing. How
(34:09):
trumpy is that to provide low interest loans for reactors.
It's going to be a nudge to an industry that
struggled for decades to get new projects up and running.
Those are a lot of initial costs. Do we know
where the ten are going to be? Uh no? I
don't think they mentioned any specific sites. Uh no.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
The time I mentioned AI and its voracious needs for power,
the town of Glowing Yellow, Oklahoma. Or listen to you,
what are you, Jackson Brown? Over here? You, Bruce Springstein,
have a baby with six arms? Nevada? Oh, for God's sake,
why would you traffic in that foolishness? I can't believe it?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
One one out the whole rock stars against nuclear power
thing one out and we have been We could have
adopted that many many decades ago, and you green people
and perfected.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, yeah, go with nuclear power. That's the answer. Man.
The progressives of the seventies and eighties lectured us over
and over again, how we must stick with fossil fuels
and don't go with nuclear power, the only form of
energy that contains its waste. Don't do that. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
(35:24):
You just look. I like musicians and poets and dreamers.
I really do, through my whole life I have. But
I don't want you in charge. I really don't want
you in charge. You're simply swayed by your emotions from
moment to moment. So anyway, I think this is a
great program. I think nuclear power is an answer to
(35:45):
a lot of our problems, and it's very very green.
So yeah, build them, bring them. You could paint the
big stacks, the cooling towers, maybe like uh, pleasant murals
or something like that in the local high school kids.
Do them here a lot, make them like the sphere
in Vegas, or like an eyeball or so oh yeah yeah,
(36:07):
or you know these days, you could cover them with
really cheap LEDs right like they did with it. It
was at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco for a
while was covered with LEDs and they have different patterns
and colors and stuff like. It was kind of fond
on us.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Well, that reminds me there's a house down the street
in my neighborhood Christmas House that went huge this year.
You can see it from blocks away. It's like the
sun's coming up and it's mostly those led kind of lights. Yeah,
and I don't know what costs. But anyway, they've got
a programmed to music and it tells you which radio
station to tune to, and you tune to the Christmas
(36:40):
music station and then you can see that it's flashing
to the beat of whatever song you're listening to. But man,
it was so bright and just so much going on.
I mean, I'm not epileptic, but I felt like I
was gonna bite my tongue off or something.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
And it's just a little much. And I thought, what
would you like to live here with all that? All
the time. I had my shades drawing all the time, yeah, kidding,
the curtains drawn. Yeah, it's interesting that they would like
promote a radio station brought to you by Q one
oh six or whatever. The heck.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, that's a common thing to do if you really
go big, have it tied into the local Christmas station
so that your music people turn it on their cars
as they drive by and you see that it's moving
to the beat.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Very cool. So Jesus loves that sort of thing. Oh, absolutely,
that's known. It's right in the Bible. Uh, we do
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