December 29, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in hour four of the Monday December 29, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Rapper Shot/ReDeclaration of Independence
- Coffee Lawsuit Meh to Wow
- Trump's Speech
- Where people get their news matters
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Sir, choices we got in lay. Those were your choices.
Somebody got shut? Oh ago, hold on the dirty Dead?
What do I want with my da do? Shatby? What
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the hell is this? Everybody good? That is? That is
Rapper too Low?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Who is appearing as a kiss a guest on a
podcast who the gun went off in his pocket?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Apparently somehow okay? First of all, guests on a podcast.
To have a podcast, all you need to do is
own a phone or a computer. So is this a
podcast with any I mean anyway? So he's sitting around
talking to a guy and his gun goes off. What's
the most interesting to me is these people live such
a lifestyle. The reaction is, hey, whose gun went off?
(01:25):
Somebody's gone went somebody's gun went off, whereas most of
the company I keep, if there were a gun shot
in the room, we would all be quite flabbergasted.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Who shot?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Who?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh my gosh, is that a gun in your pocket?
Or you're just happy to be on my podcast? Hello,
slay that again, Michael. Just the beginning of it and
choices we got in life. Those were your choices.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Somebody got shot? Are they okay? All right? Getting back
to our topic, motivating.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Ourselves for the New Year's rapper too low if you
need to stick to your diet through January.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So there are a couple of things I wanted to
do yesterday as kind of a kicking off.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The ear thing. But we have so much lets to
get to it. We can't get to all of it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But I love this. I'm going to hit you with
part of it and then we'll move on. We got
a bunch of stuff. But this is written by a
guy named Jeff Goldstein, who is a writer I really like,
and he has this redeclaration of independence and you'll know
what he's driving at immediately. Be it so understood. This
is my vow for the New year, too. I refuse
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to unpack white violence. I reject the idea that my
existence perpetuates white power structures. I will not, and in fact, cannot,
examine my ipplicit biases.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I'm an individual.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
My meaning is mine, It's what makes me me.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm not taking any journey to discover the impact of
my privilege on black and brown people's I will not
become anti racist or anti fascist to satisfy your demands.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I reject cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I'm not
defined by my color, my lrige, and my sex. I'm
jeff good to meet you.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I will not respect your pronouns or celebrate your queerness.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I am hostile to your sexualization of children.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I reject your triggers and your desire to control my speech.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I know who and what you are.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You are my presumptive master, or else the useful idiot
who empowers him. But I will grant you and your
ideology no power over me. There's more you want to
hear a little more sure. I reject equity because it
is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject inclusivity because it
is inorganic, superficial, and contrived.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I reject mandated diversity.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I will not surrender to the crayon box mafia, nor
do the gender changelings who pretend I am construct answerable
to the whims. Cultural appropriation is merely culture. It expands
to include, and it makes up the very fabric of
a pluralistic society. There's no such thing as digital blackface.
My whiteness is not violent, my sex is not oppressive.
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My religion doesn't concern you, and my children are not
yours to mold. Your beliefs will not be imposed on me.
The state will not parent my sons.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Theory, Yes, digital blackface, I'd forgotten that term.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh yeah, and again if you've lost a thread. This
is a re declaration of independence. Queer theory is critical.
Race theory is critical. Consciousness is the Marxist rejection of
the individual as individual. I have some stats on how
many states queer theory is being taught in schools to
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little children as truth and is as shocking. Well, one
more time. Queer theory is critical. Race theory is critical.
Consciousness is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual.
Cultural Marxism is determined to raise norms, so cachaos tear
families asunder and reduce being to collective conformity. I reject
its premises as fully as I reject its adherents. I
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will not comply. I will not mouth your slogans. I
will not denounce on command. I am not your tool,
and you are not my minder. And he has a
little more about my speech is my own. I reject
each of your excuses to silence me. I don't ask
for your protections. I can filter information without your interference,
Mark Zuckerberg, and I despise your presumption to protect me
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from myself. I am your sworn enemy, and you are mine.
I will not perform for you. I will not read
from your script or dancing your follies. Oh my brother,
we'll post this at armstrong egeddi dot com.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It is brilliant, and he goes on. But that's the main.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Party, and it fits in with that Wall Street Journal
article I was reading from last hour. The progressive moment
in global politics is over. That moment existed mostly online
and with the you know, high level university set. It
was a much smaller group than we all thought or feared,
thank god, but it was it was misleading because it
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was so prevalent in you know, TV, newspapers and Twitter
in places like that, but it was not near as
big as we all thought. And the best thing that
could happen to people that are on the right side
of that, and you could be a lifelong Democrat and
be to the right of all that stuff by a
law shirt like Bill Maherr and lots of people. The
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best thing that could happen for us is if they
continue to believe that they have the numbers they think
they have as opposed to the tiny fraction that actually
agrees with them.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Right. I'm reminded of.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Something great you brought to us, I think it was
last year about how it only takes fifteen percent of
a population that's dedicated to a revolution to make it successful.
Because you want to give us the nickel version of that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, you have to have the fifteen percent really active
group that wants to overthrow the current regime. But you
get a big enough chunk of people who mostly agree
with you. They're not going to really do much, but
they're not going to get in the way, and then
you have the crowd that's scared of you, and you
can easily get over fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Right, right, and that's how you in.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And imagine if you were in that hardcore fifteen percent
that wanted to, I don't know, for the sake of
the argument overthrow Western society in the name of neo Marxism.
Imagine if your first step was to capture media and education.
I mean, that would be an enormous coupe because you could,
and I'm stating the obvious here, you could project the idea.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
That you have way way more mass.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Than you do for your radical ideas, like radical gender theory,
which I will give you a clue. It's like over
a third of American states are teaching radical gender theory.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
There's no such thing as a man or a woman.
You get to choose to little kids in schools.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So man, these scumbags, and I'm sorry for the for
the you know, I'm a wardsmith. I can do better
than that. I apologize these monsters. At least it's more adult.
The fact that these monsters have gotten as far as
they have is really really troubling. But you know, on
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we go with the fight. Trudeau resigning in Canada is
a lot of what sparked. For instance, the Wall Street
Journal article one on the list of Western leaders or
parties that have really suffered defeats trying to ride the
whole pronouns latinex you should be ashamed of yourself for
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being a white male.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Bang right, Yeah, yeah, he was huge into that. And
the what's really troubling about this, and we've had a
bunch of conversations, is you got to your well, just
you keep calling it fifteen percent for the sake of
the argument. You get your hardcore fifteen percent that are activists. Well,
the genius of.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Neo Marxism developed in the intellectual salons of Europe in
the forties and fifties.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They wrote books, they signed their name, they told us
precisely what they wanted to do. The genius of it
is they have crafted, and it's an evil genius, these
moral sounding arguments that convince a certain sort of person
that they are doing the right thing morally by becoming
an adherent to Neo Marxism. And it's particularly effective among
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women who want to seek agreement and groups and acceptance of.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
That sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And it's particularly successful among your university crowd who want
to be on the cutting edge of thought. That's how
they gratify their egos by being the innovator, the new person,
the revolutionary. It's incredibly I mean, they take practically sexual
glee for being innovators in the universities, because how are
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you going to justify your big salary if you in
any level of education say you know that stuff we've
been doing, it's perfect. I wouldn't change it at all, true,
did your PhD? So anyway, man, you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Have heard a lot of gun shots. If your reaction
to a gun shot in a room is this, and
choices we got in lay? Those were your choices.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Who been calmer than that shot? Who did somebody get shot? Huh? What?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It would be the most amazing thing that ever happened
in my life if a gun went.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Off in a room.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Or sitting there interviewing I don't know, Rich Lowry from
the National Review, and.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Rich says who shot who? Who somebody get shot? And
choices we got in lay? Those were your choices.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It actually pretty interesting conversation before you know, the gun
went on. So the other thing I wanted to squeeze
in a couple more kind of wrapping up the year,
looking forward to the year thing, because I'll rant and
rave about the previous story for the rest of my life.
But Jan Crawford was on CBS's face the Nation Sunday.
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I saw that, and she brought the thunder that the
most uncovered and underreported topic last year was clearly she said,
quote that to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline. They
became undeniable in the televised debate, unquestioned that that's the
most underreported story of the year.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, absolutely true. But we'll be lost to history. It's
amazing that there isn't more introspection over that. Well, here's
the really interesting part. She says, still incredibly, we read
in the Washington Post that his advisers are saying that
he regrets that he dropped out of the race, that
he thinks he could have beaten Trump, and I think
that is either delusional or the gaslighting the American people.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But CBS's chief.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa jumped up and said, well,
President Biden is repeatedly said he was sick during the
debate in Atlanta, and he's always been fine, and he
leaves fine. That is his position, the position of many
of his top stadens as well as even though there
is that reporting that Jan was talking to reduce the
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obvious accepted by everyone reality of Joe Biden's cotton decline,
as there is that reporting, but he has now Jan
he has said repeatedly had a cold.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Costa's lost to me, he's lost his mind. I don't
know who that's for.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Eighty five percent of America before that debate thought he
shouldn't serve again.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So I don't know who you're serving with that, But
enjoy your bubble Bob, the Armstrong and Getty show. I
wonder if there's going to be a run on those
giant Schnauzer.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Of course there are, of course the dignified giant Schnauzer
they call it is there like an undignified giant Schnauzer
breed as well, like the clowney you know, kind of loser.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I Inchnauzer that where's a wife beater around the house?
And boops? Were it once? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So this is one of my favorite moments in legislative history.
A House Republican representative, Earl Buddy Carter of Georgia, natch,
I'm gonna move to Georgia. Just to vote for Earl
Buddy Carter. He introduced a bill this week that would
enable President Trump's efforts to purchase Greenland and rename it Red,
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White and Blueland. The bill would also require the federal
government to refer to it as such on official maps
and documents. Never mind what the Denmarkings and Greenlanders say.
Let's see as part of the bill, America is back
and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition
of Red, White and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified
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the purchase of what is now Greenland is a national
security priority, and we'll proudly welcome it to people to
join the.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Freest nation ever exist.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
When our negotiator in chief inkst this monumental deal also
considered as names for the new state Cold af Sylvania,
Polar Barrington, simply Ice, Ice Baby Ah, and my favorite
North North North Dakota. Oh. Now, we're gonna have nice
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cooperation with Greenland. The Arctic in those passageways are going
to be incredibly important in the next fifty years. And
it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Do you remember? I should do it again? In case
anybody didn't hear it.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
The biggest rumor in Washington, DC according to Mark Calpern,
and he talks to all the players. Oh yeah, the
biggest rumor in the world, persistent and omnipresent, is the
talk of a grand bargain between the United States and
China that involves reduced tariffs, US access to Greenland, China's
peaceful taking of Taiwan, all and several provisions and players
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to be named later.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It seems implausible to many years and eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But the talk of this deal well is everywhere, says
Mark Alpern.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This sounds like it could be.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
A moral horror to me, but I'm trying to understand it.
We won't fight you on Taiwan. We concede, Sorry, Vladimir.
You get the rights to the Northern passage through the
Arctic and the rest of it as a zone of
influence and security.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And let's get it on and we call it a deal. Yeah. Yeah,
and a couple of players to be named later.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah. I got a question. So yesterday was Lincoln's birthday? Yes, sir,
and Lincoln is on the penny. The penny was the
most my whole life on the present piece of currency
that existed. It is since lost its usefulness. Yes, we
all agree with that. But if Lincoln isn't the greatest
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president of all time, he's number two. So I mean,
you know, everybody agrees on that pretty much. Right, he's
either him or Washington. They're in the top two. And
do we move him to another? Doesn't it seem I mean,
we're eliminating the most dominant currency that existed for my
whole life with him on it. So that's a lot
of less Lincoln bouncing around. And they're talking about putting
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you know, Harriet Tubman on the twenty or whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
They've been talking about that for a long time. We
still got the he's got the five dollar bill.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, that's a fine. You know, he's the currency, the
fin the five.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It ain't like the penny. Though everybody had a penny
in their pocket my whole life. Lincoln was in their pocket,
your whole life.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No more. You got to move on. I just feel
like he's getting downgraded.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I don't know what to tell you, you know how,
I'm always predicting a planet of the beavers because human
beings are going to die off because we're not reproducing.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Fascinating story.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
The Czech Republic was trying to build a dam project
for years and years and years, and while they were
arguing about it, beavers actually damned off the river and
accomplished what the government couldn't.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That's a pretty funny story. They're ready to take over.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Eleven months ago. I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it.
When I took office, inflation was the worst in forty
eight years, and some would say in the history of
our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before,
making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. This
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happened during a Democrat administration, and it's when we first
began hearing the word affordability.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Donald Trump last night primetime address with the belief that
it's a messaging problem. The reason people feel this way
about the economy. The economy's fine. It's a messaging problem.
And I think that's true to some extent.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
The president's energies, at least on camera, seemed to be
more about foreign policy.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Leave I disagree. I don't think it's true at all.
I think prices are still feel high. People some people
who don't understand what inflation is.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
A lot of people believe prices were actually going to
go down when he became president.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
They didn't because that's not the way inflation works. And
they're still.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Really mad about it, and you guys try to paint
it however you want, with whatever messaging you want. But
until I get used to the fact that what this
meal cost eighty bucks.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, I ain't gonna go.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, you're disagreeing with me by agreeing with me completely.
In effect, that's what the Trump administration should be saying.
What you just said, that the lack of good messaging
about Look.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
This is going to be tough.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Here's the way inflation works, here's how we're trying to
combat it, and they just haven't. So they tried to
the president out for a speech last night, which was
covered in widely divergent ways. As you might think. We'll
give you some of the headlines in a couple of minutes,
but I thought the opening stuff was really quite good.
Sixty one Michael, Our.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Border was open because of this. Our country was being
invaded by an army of twenty five million people, many
who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums.
They were drug dealers, gang members, and even eleven thousand,
eight hundred and eighty eight murders more than fifty percent
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of whom killed more than one person. This is what
the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country, and
it can never be allowed to happen again.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There's no arguing on the whole immigration thing.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
And New York Times did that great piece a week
ago on how everybody around Joe Biden was saying.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
This is a disaster. Oh yeah, yeah, I thought that
was strong and indisputable, coming from jails, insane asylums, gunnerrhea, clinics,
animal cruelty, self help groups, just scum of the earth,
insane asylums and mental institutions, which is a rough two
for that's terrible. Uh give me sixty two, Michael.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody,
crime at record levels, with law enforcement and words such
as that just absolutely forbidden.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
We had the worst.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Trade deals ever made, and our country was laughed at
from all over the world.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But they're not laughing anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All right, good, good, strong, positive stuff. And then at
some point he god is adrenaline to kick in or something,
and got much louder on the microphone. But whoever was
in charge of the audio didn't notice or something, and
so the rest of it sounds kind of overdriven. If
you're familiar with the audio terminology or whatever, give me
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a sixty five, uncle.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them
down very fast.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Let's look at the facts.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Under the Biden administration, car prices rose twenty two percent
and in many states thirty percent or more.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Gasoline rose thirty.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
To fifty percent, hotel rose thirty seven percent, airfares rose
thirty one percent. Now under our leadership, they are all
coming down and coming down fast.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I didn't watch the speech. What was the setting. Was
he sitting behind the desk or what was he doing?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Uh, he was behind a lectern in the diplomatic room.
I think that was decorating for Christmas, and the flags
behind him and stuff like that, the.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Christmasting nice bit, the Christmas white House look, which is
always nice.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And then he talked a little bit about wages and
tariffs his favorite word, and building factories and plants and that,
which is actually not there's not much of that happening.
But I think that's unfair criticism. That sort of thing
takes years to get going. But now and then that's
the problem with the whole tariff thing in general.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Are you going to invest in building a plant if
you know that takes years, but the next president that's
all going to go away, And so you don't need
to build a plant.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I mean an Supreme Court does it next month? Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So that's that's kind of a silly criticism. But then
he got to some cash for you clips seventy.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Next year, you will also see the results of the
largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished
through our great, big, beautiful bill, perhaps the most sweeping
legislation ever passed in Congress that includes no tax on tips,
no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security
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for our great seniors. Under these cuts, many families will
be saving between eleven thousand and twenty thousand dollars a year,
and next spring is projected to be the largest tax
refund season.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Of all time. And then go ahead, you got to
do something. I know. I'll wait.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
And then finally he made this promise to our our
uniformed men and women.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Seventy one one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military
service members will receive a special we call Warrior dividend
before Christmas Warrior Dividend in honor of our nations founding
in seventeen seventy six. We are sending every soldier one
thousand and seven hundred and seventy six dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
We made a lot more.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Money than anybody thought because of Tariff's and the bill
helped us along. Nobody deserves it more than our military.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That's an interesting idea. Yeah, So sending out checks for
seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars to everybody in uniform,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So there's even more pulling that came out this week
where Trump's really struggling with his numbers on the economy,
which he was bulletproof on that number his first term,
no matter what was going on, no matter what he
said or what you know, nuttiness by some people's standards,
was happening in the Trump administration. People trusted him on
the economy, and those numbers have collapsed. And I think
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because like I was saying earlier, it's just look at
what my grocery bill is.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
When I get to the end of the line.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
It hasn't gone down and I don't see that turning
around anytime soon. But anyway, inflation numbers out today. They
came in less than expected. Whatever that's all about. So
Kevin Hassett, he's the UH, he's the Economic Council advisor
for Donald Trump. He said, this is just an astonishingly
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good inflation report that came out today, two point seven percent.
We've looked at sixty one forecast this number came in
better than every single one of them, and not a
single economist surveyed by Bloomberg got it right. So that's
the spin. It's not even prair to call it spin.
That's just the fact today on that particular number when
you break it out, though, that's what they're doing in
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the Wall Street Journal. Some of the numbers within the number,
so all items two point seven percent, but energy services
up seven point four percent, just flat energy four point
two percent. Uh, Food about where it was two point
six but fuel oil up eleven percent, piped gas up
nine percent.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Energy just killing people. I know, my bills are ridiculus us.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Also interesting because the President touted the fact that gasoline
prices are much lower than they were during the Biden.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Years, which is true.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Medical care services up three point three percent, shelter up
three percent, so a lot of the things you really need.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Up quite a bit. Electricity up six point nine percent.
Damn used vehicles.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Well that it's a good one or a bad one,
depending on whether you're buying or selling.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Right. If I'm selling one, I'm happy that they're up
almost four percent. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So Trump's his modus operandi for a very long time
is to make out landish promises and be always the
consummate salesperson and marketer. The problem he's got, though, is
if he were to make like grandiose claims about immigration,
and he doesn't have to because they've done an unbelievable job,
but about you know, how much was coming in or
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how much they've stopped or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
People would kind of sort of have to take his.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Word for it or look it up or whatever, because
you know, I'm sitting here talking to a microphone in
my home.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I can't see people crossing the border. I don't live
on the border.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
On the other hand, everybody, everybody is an expert on
the economy, their personal economy.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
They know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You can't sales pitch your way through on people's personal economies, right,
And you know, Trump, at his vaunted instincts. He's how
he's got to be able to understand that Biden didn't.
Biden was a miserable failure at it, and I'm a
little surprised to see Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Not doing a little better job at it. But anyway,
handful of headlines.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
New York Times, I wonder in my own life, at
what point I'll stop being surprised when they bring me
the bill at a restaurant or when they give me
the total at the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I still am surprised as of today. Yeah, what how
do I spend? Are you sure you're ringing that upright?
I would agree completely, Yeah, New York Times.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
As you might expect a Bella Coast, Trump points fingers
in defending his record on the economy, lying, liar, lied
his way through lies and distortions and wrong statistics and
highly selective misleading use of statistics.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Blah blah blah. Washington Post Trump attempts to domestic reset
with fast paced White House address, and they pointed out that, yeah,
his pace was much much faster than he used It
seems like a fair headline from the Washington Post. Oh yeah,
I would agree. Here's your lead.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
President Donald Trump bashed his predecessor and praised his own
policy achievements. In his first year back in office, delivering
an eighteen minute live address to the nation on Wednesdays,
he seeks to reverse lagging public opinion numbers and convince
Americans that he is addressing their economic concerns. I think
that is a perfectly fair assessment. They certainly are a
bit critical in the wah poe during the article, but
you know why not. Let's see the Wall Street journal
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Trump defends handling of economy, announces military dividend. President Trump
defended his handling in the today seventeen hundred and seventy
six dollars warrior dividend check for active duty service members
he said would be paid for with tariff revenue. And again,
you know, a mix of description and criticism.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Where he was right, where he's wrong. As journalism. In short,
I think that's fine.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
The New York Post has clearly staked its stake. Is
that a thing on pro trumpiness? Trump tells America I'm
fixing Biden's mess in chart filled prime time address and
does not have even the slightest caveat or caution, much less.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Criticism for the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And they reproduced several of his charts, which actually are
pretty interesting. You really have to take in a broad
variety of news if you want to know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's the arm Strong in Getty show, Armstrong in getting.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So speaking in classrooms, I wanted to talk a little
bit about media and information bubbles, and I was gonna
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mention that. Well, I did mention on the air the
other day that a friend of mine has a professional
relationship with a person and it would not be appropriate
for my friend to call them out and disagree with
them on politics. But this person was commenting on the
Charlie Kirk assassination. And this fella, who my friend identified
(29:38):
as a very nice guy and quite reasonably brian, just
an overall good dude, was one hundred percent convinced that
the young man who killed Charlie Kirk was a flag
waving MAGA conservative who resented Charlie for not being maga enough.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Was completely convinced of that.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And I'm saving it for a cam Us Madness update
probably tomorrow. But the head of the Association of University Professors,
which is tens of thousands of university professors, was.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Out the other day saying, oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It was a right wing activist who killed Charlie Kirk
and exactly the same thing. And if there's a theme
to this, and I've got a couple more like exhibits,
it's that a lot of folks who think some crazys.
They're probably not bad people, but they're used to looking
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in some fairly normal, mainstreamish places for information and what
they're getting is just wildly inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I'm thinking of a couple of people I know who
have really warped views of what's going on in the world.
It's not because they're bad, it's just because of where
they go to get their information.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Right, And so yeah, yeah, and you've got to be
a better consumer of news. But maybe the theme, the
overall theme, is when you're run into people who think
this crazy stuff, it could well be they've just never
heard an alternative explanation, and be nice. Be what we
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on the right tend to be, which is I'll listen
to you now if you don't mind, can you listen
to me because I haven't heard you know?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
How about if I go with back away slowly and
keep my eye on their hands.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
A lot of work.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Two free Beacon. Let mean the major AI platforms, which
have emerged as significant American news sources, especially for the young,
describe Charlie Kirk's assassination as motivated by right wing ideology
and downplay left wing violence as quote exceptionally rare. According
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to the Free Beacon, when asked to name recent assassination
in the US motivated by right wing ideology, multiple chat bots,
including chat GPT, Google's Gemini Perplexity all listed Charlie Kirk's
murder as a right wing act of violence.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, obviously, Jimmy Kimmel got misled by this.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
He seemed to actually believe that Gemini's chatbot made the
provably false statement that quote. The assassination of conservative active
as Charlie Kirk in September of twenty five has been
identified by researchers as the only fatal right wing terrorist
incident in the US during the first half of twenty
twenty five, and they go into some detail. Keep in
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mind that a recent Free Beacon analysis we talked about
this on the air found that Al Jazeera was one
of the two most popular sources used by AI chatbots
for news about the Israel Hamas war, and there were
zero Israel Learn Leaning sites that were in their top ten.
I think it was so garbage in, garbage out. Then
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you've got Hannah Nicole Jones, Nicole Hannah Joe Owns, whatever
her name is. New York Times the Crazy Lady, the
racist who came out with a sixteen nineteen project wrote
recently that public mourning for Kirk is unsettling. In the
wake of Kirk's death, individuals and institutions across the nation
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moved not just to condemn his killings in political violence,
but to venerate him. It was unsettling to see many
politicians from across the political spectrum speak with reverence about Kirk.
And she went on to describe how he was a.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Man who spread hate.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Said black women lacked the brain processing power to otherwise
be taken seriously, which is a deliberate misquoting of Charlie
And again that's in.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The New York Times. Wow, flamingly.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You know, liberal obviously, but you could be a person
serious about getting.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Information and be completely misled.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Well, on the same story, but a different version of it.
I was talking to somebody yesterday who is completely into
this story that that poor kid in Utah is going
to be executed for something he didn't do. He was framed,
he was a patsy like Lee Harvey Hoswald that the
the FBI planted that gun and they're pinning it on
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him and it was the masade working with our FBI
to kill Charlie killed Charlie Kirk, and they're gonna pin
it on this kid, and this poor kid is going
to be executed. And how I mean this person was
upset that this innocent kid is going to be executed
for something he didn't do.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
God unplugged the Internet, and I think that comes from
the Candace Owen's crowd. Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna
ask that.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, all right, final note on this topic because Nelly
Bowles is so great writing in the free press.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
And of the left. Yes, but why so, like why
for you and I?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Is it so obviously he was half crazy also upset
about the trans thing, but he's dating a trans person
and blah blah blah suicidal And I just believe that story.
Why do you think you and I are the way
we are on that story, which I believe is the
accurate version. By the way, I don't know Armstrong and
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty not live from studio c Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Sir, choices we got in lay. Those were your choices.
Somebody got shut? Oh ago, hold on the dirty Dead?
What do I want with my da do? Shatby? What
(00:51):
the hell is this? Everybody good? That is? That is
Rapper too Low?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Who is appearing as a kiss a guest on a
podcast who the gun went off in his pocket?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Apparently somehow okay? First of all, guests on a podcast.
To have a podcast, all you need to do is
own a phone or a computer. So is this a
podcast with any I mean anyway? So he's sitting around
talking to a guy and his gun goes off. What's
the most interesting to me is these people live such
a lifestyle. The reaction is, hey, whose gun went off?
(01:25):
Somebody's gone went somebody's gun went off, whereas most of
the company I keep, if there were a gun shot
in the room, we would all be quite flabbergasted.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Who shot?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Who?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh my gosh, is that a gun in your pocket?
Or you're just happy to be on my podcast? Hello,
slay that again, Michael. Just the beginning of it and
choices we got in life. Those were your choices.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Somebody got shot? Are they okay? All right? Getting back
to our topic, motivating.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Ourselves for the New Year's rapper too low if you
need to stick to your diet through January.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So there are a couple of things I wanted to
do yesterday as kind of a kicking off.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The ear thing. But we have so much lets to
get to it. We can't get to all of it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But I love this. I'm going to hit you with
part of it and then we'll move on. We got
a bunch of stuff. But this is written by a
guy named Jeff Goldstein, who is a writer I really like,
and he has this redeclaration of independence and you'll know
what he's driving at immediately. Be it so understood. This
is my vow for the New year, too. I refuse
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to unpack white violence. I reject the idea that my
existence perpetuates white power structures. I will not, and in fact, cannot,
examine my ipplicit biases.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I'm an individual.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
My meaning is mine, It's what makes me me.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm not taking any journey to discover the impact of
my privilege on black and brown people's I will not
become anti racist or anti fascist to satisfy your demands.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I reject cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I'm not
defined by my color, my lrige, and my sex. I'm
jeff good to meet you.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I will not respect your pronouns or celebrate your queerness.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I am hostile to your sexualization of children.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I reject your triggers and your desire to control my speech.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I know who and what you are.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You are my presumptive master, or else the useful idiot
who empowers him. But I will grant you and your
ideology no power over me. There's more you want to
hear a little more sure. I reject equity because it
is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject inclusivity because it
is inorganic, superficial, and contrived.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I reject mandated diversity.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I will not surrender to the crayon box mafia, nor
do the gender changelings who pretend I am construct answerable
to the whims. Cultural appropriation is merely culture. It expands
to include, and it makes up the very fabric of
a pluralistic society. There's no such thing as digital blackface.
My whiteness is not violent, my sex is not oppressive.
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My religion doesn't concern you, and my children are not
yours to mold. Your beliefs will not be imposed on me.
The state will not parent my sons.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Theory, Yes, digital blackface, I'd forgotten that term.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh yeah, and again if you've lost a thread. This
is a re declaration of independence. Queer theory is critical.
Race theory is critical. Consciousness is the Marxist rejection of
the individual as individual. I have some stats on how
many states queer theory is being taught in schools to
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little children as truth and is as shocking. Well, one
more time. Queer theory is critical. Race theory is critical.
Consciousness is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual.
Cultural Marxism is determined to raise norms, so cachaos tear
families asunder and reduce being to collective conformity. I reject
its premises as fully as I reject its adherents. I
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will not comply. I will not mouth your slogans. I
will not denounce on command. I am not your tool,
and you are not my minder. And he has a
little more about my speech is my own. I reject
each of your excuses to silence me. I don't ask
for your protections. I can filter information without your interference,
Mark Zuckerberg, and I despise your presumption to protect me
(05:31):
from myself. I am your sworn enemy, and you are mine.
I will not perform for you. I will not read
from your script or dancing your follies. Oh my brother,
we'll post this at armstrong egeddi dot com.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It is brilliant, and he goes on. But that's the main.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Party, and it fits in with that Wall Street Journal
article I was reading from last hour. The progressive moment
in global politics is over. That moment existed mostly online
and with the you know, high level university set. It
was a much smaller group than we all thought or feared,
thank god, but it was it was misleading because it
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was so prevalent in you know, TV, newspapers and Twitter
in places like that, but it was not near as
big as we all thought. And the best thing that
could happen to people that are on the right side
of that, and you could be a lifelong Democrat and
be to the right of all that stuff by a
law shirt like Bill Maherr and lots of people. The
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best thing that could happen for us is if they
continue to believe that they have the numbers they think
they have as opposed to the tiny fraction that actually
agrees with them.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Right. I'm reminded of.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Something great you brought to us, I think it was
last year about how it only takes fifteen percent of
a population that's dedicated to a revolution to make it successful.
Because you want to give us the nickel version of that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, you have to have the fifteen percent really active
group that wants to overthrow the current regime. But you
get a big enough chunk of people who mostly agree
with you. They're not going to really do much, but
they're not going to get in the way, and then
you have the crowd that's scared of you, and you
can easily get over fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Right, right, and that's how you in.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And imagine if you were in that hardcore fifteen percent
that wanted to, I don't know, for the sake of
the argument overthrow Western society in the name of neo Marxism.
Imagine if your first step was to capture media and education.
I mean, that would be an enormous coupe because you could,
and I'm stating the obvious here, you could project the idea.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
That you have way way more mass.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Than you do for your radical ideas, like radical gender theory,
which I will give you a clue. It's like over
a third of American states are teaching radical gender theory.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
There's no such thing as a man or a woman.
You get to choose to little kids in schools.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So man, these scumbags, and I'm sorry for the for
the you know, I'm a wardsmith. I can do better
than that. I apologize these monsters. At least it's more adult.
The fact that these monsters have gotten as far as
they have is really really troubling. But you know, on
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we go with the fight. Trudeau resigning in Canada is
a lot of what sparked. For instance, the Wall Street
Journal article one on the list of Western leaders or
parties that have really suffered defeats trying to ride the
whole pronouns latinex you should be ashamed of yourself for
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being a white male.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Bang right, Yeah, yeah, he was huge into that. And
the what's really troubling about this, and we've had a
bunch of conversations, is you got to your well, just
you keep calling it fifteen percent for the sake of
the argument. You get your hardcore fifteen percent that are activists. Well,
the genius of.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Neo Marxism developed in the intellectual salons of Europe in
the forties and fifties.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They wrote books, they signed their name, they told us
precisely what they wanted to do. The genius of it
is they have crafted, and it's an evil genius, these
moral sounding arguments that convince a certain sort of person
that they are doing the right thing morally by becoming
an adherent to Neo Marxism. And it's particularly effective among
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women who want to seek agreement and groups and acceptance of.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
That sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And it's particularly successful among your university crowd who want
to be on the cutting edge of thought. That's how
they gratify their egos by being the innovator, the new person,
the revolutionary. It's incredibly I mean, they take practically sexual
glee for being innovators in the universities, because how are
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you going to justify your big salary if you in
any level of education say you know that stuff we've
been doing, it's perfect. I wouldn't change it at all, true,
did your PhD? So anyway, man, you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Have heard a lot of gun shots. If your reaction
to a gun shot in a room is this, and
choices we got in lay? Those were your choices.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Who been calmer than that shot? Who did somebody get shot? Huh? What?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It would be the most amazing thing that ever happened
in my life if a gun went.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Off in a room.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Or sitting there interviewing I don't know, Rich Lowry from
the National Review, and.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Rich says who shot who? Who somebody get shot? And
choices we got in lay? Those were your choices.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It actually pretty interesting conversation before you know, the gun
went on. So the other thing I wanted to squeeze
in a couple more kind of wrapping up the year,
looking forward to the year thing, because I'll rant and
rave about the previous story for the rest of my life.
But Jan Crawford was on CBS's face the Nation Sunday.
(11:10):
I saw that, and she brought the thunder that the
most uncovered and underreported topic last year was clearly she said,
quote that to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline. They
became undeniable in the televised debate, unquestioned that that's the
most underreported story of the year.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, absolutely true. But we'll be lost to history. It's
amazing that there isn't more introspection over that. Well, here's
the really interesting part. She says, still incredibly, we read
in the Washington Post that his advisers are saying that
he regrets that he dropped out of the race, that
he thinks he could have beaten Trump, and I think
that is either delusional or the gaslighting the American people.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But CBS's chief.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa jumped up and said, well,
President Biden is repeatedly said he was sick during the
debate in Atlanta, and he's always been fine, and he
leaves fine. That is his position, the position of many
of his top stadens as well as even though there
is that reporting that Jan was talking to reduce the
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obvious accepted by everyone reality of Joe Biden's cotton decline,
as there is that reporting, but he has now Jan
he has said repeatedly had a cold.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Costa's lost to me, he's lost his mind. I don't
know who that's for.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Eighty five percent of America before that debate thought he
shouldn't serve again.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So I don't know who you're serving with that, But
enjoy your bubble Bob, the Armstrong and Getty show. I
wonder if there's going to be a run on those
giant Schnauzer.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Of course there are, of course the dignified giant Schnauzer
they call it is there like an undignified giant Schnauzer
breed as well, like the clowney you know, kind of loser.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I Inchnauzer that where's a wife beater around the house?
And boops? Were it once? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So this is one of my favorite moments in legislative history.
A House Republican representative, Earl Buddy Carter of Georgia, natch,
I'm gonna move to Georgia. Just to vote for Earl
Buddy Carter. He introduced a bill this week that would
enable President Trump's efforts to purchase Greenland and rename it Red,
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White and Blueland. The bill would also require the federal
government to refer to it as such on official maps
and documents. Never mind what the Denmarkings and Greenlanders say.
Let's see as part of the bill, America is back
and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition
of Red, White and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified
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the purchase of what is now Greenland is a national
security priority, and we'll proudly welcome it to people to
join the.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Freest nation ever exist.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
When our negotiator in chief inkst this monumental deal also
considered as names for the new state Cold af Sylvania,
Polar Barrington, simply Ice, Ice Baby Ah, and my favorite
North North North Dakota. Oh. Now, we're gonna have nice
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cooperation with Greenland. The Arctic in those passageways are going
to be incredibly important in the next fifty years. And
it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Do you remember? I should do it again? In case
anybody didn't hear it.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
The biggest rumor in Washington, DC according to Mark Calpern,
and he talks to all the players. Oh yeah, the
biggest rumor in the world, persistent and omnipresent, is the
talk of a grand bargain between the United States and
China that involves reduced tariffs, US access to Greenland, China's
peaceful taking of Taiwan, all and several provisions and players
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to be named later.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It seems implausible to many years and eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But the talk of this deal well is everywhere, says
Mark Alpern.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This sounds like it could be.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
A moral horror to me, but I'm trying to understand it.
We won't fight you on Taiwan. We concede, Sorry, Vladimir.
You get the rights to the Northern passage through the
Arctic and the rest of it as a zone of
influence and security.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And let's get it on and we call it a deal. Yeah. Yeah,
and a couple of players to be named later.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah. I got a question. So yesterday was Lincoln's birthday? Yes, sir,
and Lincoln is on the penny. The penny was the
most my whole life on the present piece of currency
that existed. It is since lost its usefulness. Yes, we
all agree with that. But if Lincoln isn't the greatest
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president of all time, he's number two. So I mean,
you know, everybody agrees on that pretty much. Right, he's
either him or Washington. They're in the top two. And
do we move him to another? Doesn't it seem I mean,
we're eliminating the most dominant currency that existed for my
whole life with him on it. So that's a lot
of less Lincoln bouncing around. And they're talking about putting
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you know, Harriet Tubman on the twenty or whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
They've been talking about that for a long time. We
still got the he's got the five dollar bill.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, that's a fine. You know, he's the currency, the
fin the five.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It ain't like the penny. Though everybody had a penny
in their pocket my whole life. Lincoln was in their pocket,
your whole life.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No more. You got to move on. I just feel
like he's getting downgraded.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I don't know what to tell you, you know how,
I'm always predicting a planet of the beavers because human
beings are going to die off because we're not reproducing.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Fascinating story.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
The Czech Republic was trying to build a dam project
for years and years and years, and while they were
arguing about it, beavers actually damned off the river and
accomplished what the government couldn't.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That's a pretty funny story. They're ready to take over.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Eleven months ago. I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it.
When I took office, inflation was the worst in forty
eight years, and some would say in the history of
our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before,
making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. This
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happened during a Democrat administration, and it's when we first
began hearing the word affordability.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Donald Trump last night primetime address with the belief that
it's a messaging problem. The reason people feel this way
about the economy. The economy's fine. It's a messaging problem.
And I think that's true to some extent.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
The president's energies, at least on camera, seemed to be
more about foreign policy.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Leave I disagree. I don't think it's true at all.
I think prices are still feel high. People some people
who don't understand what inflation is.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
A lot of people believe prices were actually going to
go down when he became president.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
They didn't because that's not the way inflation works. And
they're still.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Really mad about it, and you guys try to paint
it however you want, with whatever messaging you want. But
until I get used to the fact that what this
meal cost eighty bucks.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, I ain't gonna go.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, you're disagreeing with me by agreeing with me completely.
In effect, that's what the Trump administration should be saying.
What you just said, that the lack of good messaging
about Look.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
This is going to be tough.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Here's the way inflation works, here's how we're trying to
combat it, and they just haven't. So they tried to
the president out for a speech last night, which was
covered in widely divergent ways. As you might think. We'll
give you some of the headlines in a couple of minutes,
but I thought the opening stuff was really quite good.
Sixty one Michael, Our.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Border was open because of this. Our country was being
invaded by an army of twenty five million people, many
who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums.
They were drug dealers, gang members, and even eleven thousand,
eight hundred and eighty eight murders more than fifty percent
(19:19):
of whom killed more than one person. This is what
the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country, and
it can never be allowed to happen again.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There's no arguing on the whole immigration thing.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
And New York Times did that great piece a week
ago on how everybody around Joe Biden was saying.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
This is a disaster. Oh yeah, yeah, I thought that
was strong and indisputable, coming from jails, insane asylums, gunnerrhea, clinics,
animal cruelty, self help groups, just scum of the earth,
insane asylums and mental institutions, which is a rough two
for that's terrible. Uh give me sixty two, Michael.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody,
crime at record levels, with law enforcement and words such
as that just absolutely forbidden.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
We had the worst.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Trade deals ever made, and our country was laughed at
from all over the world.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But they're not laughing anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All right, good, good, strong, positive stuff. And then at
some point he god is adrenaline to kick in or something,
and got much louder on the microphone. But whoever was
in charge of the audio didn't notice or something, and
so the rest of it sounds kind of overdriven. If
you're familiar with the audio terminology or whatever, give me
(20:39):
a sixty five, uncle.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them
down very fast.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Let's look at the facts.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Under the Biden administration, car prices rose twenty two percent
and in many states thirty percent or more.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Gasoline rose thirty.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
To fifty percent, hotel rose thirty seven percent, airfares rose
thirty one percent. Now under our leadership, they are all
coming down and coming down fast.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I didn't watch the speech. What was the setting. Was
he sitting behind the desk or what was he doing?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Uh, he was behind a lectern in the diplomatic room.
I think that was decorating for Christmas, and the flags
behind him and stuff like that, the.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Christmasting nice bit, the Christmas white House look, which is
always nice.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And then he talked a little bit about wages and
tariffs his favorite word, and building factories and plants and that,
which is actually not there's not much of that happening.
But I think that's unfair criticism. That sort of thing
takes years to get going. But now and then that's
the problem with the whole tariff thing in general.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Are you going to invest in building a plant if
you know that takes years, but the next president that's
all going to go away, And so you don't need
to build a plant.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I mean an Supreme Court does it next month? Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So that's that's kind of a silly criticism. But then
he got to some cash for you clips seventy.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Next year, you will also see the results of the
largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished
through our great, big, beautiful bill, perhaps the most sweeping
legislation ever passed in Congress that includes no tax on tips,
no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security
(22:21):
for our great seniors. Under these cuts, many families will
be saving between eleven thousand and twenty thousand dollars a year,
and next spring is projected to be the largest tax
refund season.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Of all time. And then go ahead, you got to
do something. I know. I'll wait.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
And then finally he made this promise to our our
uniformed men and women.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Seventy one one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military
service members will receive a special we call Warrior dividend
before Christmas Warrior Dividend in honor of our nations founding
in seventeen seventy six. We are sending every soldier one
thousand and seven hundred and seventy six dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
We made a lot more.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Money than anybody thought because of Tariff's and the bill
helped us along. Nobody deserves it more than our military.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That's an interesting idea. Yeah, So sending out checks for
seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars to everybody in uniform,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So there's even more pulling that came out this week
where Trump's really struggling with his numbers on the economy,
which he was bulletproof on that number his first term,
no matter what was going on, no matter what he
said or what you know, nuttiness by some people's standards,
was happening in the Trump administration. People trusted him on
the economy, and those numbers have collapsed. And I think
(23:48):
because like I was saying earlier, it's just look at
what my grocery bill is.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
When I get to the end of the line.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
It hasn't gone down and I don't see that turning
around anytime soon. But anyway, inflation numbers out today. They
came in less than expected. Whatever that's all about. So
Kevin Hassett, he's the UH, he's the Economic Council advisor
for Donald Trump. He said, this is just an astonishingly
(24:14):
good inflation report that came out today, two point seven percent.
We've looked at sixty one forecast this number came in
better than every single one of them, and not a
single economist surveyed by Bloomberg got it right. So that's
the spin. It's not even prair to call it spin.
That's just the fact today on that particular number when
you break it out, though, that's what they're doing in
(24:36):
the Wall Street Journal. Some of the numbers within the number,
so all items two point seven percent, but energy services
up seven point four percent, just flat energy four point
two percent. Uh, Food about where it was two point
six but fuel oil up eleven percent, piped gas up
nine percent.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Energy just killing people. I know, my bills are ridiculus us.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Also interesting because the President touted the fact that gasoline
prices are much lower than they were during the Biden.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Years, which is true.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Medical care services up three point three percent, shelter up
three percent, so a lot of the things you really need.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Up quite a bit. Electricity up six point nine percent.
Damn used vehicles.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Well that it's a good one or a bad one,
depending on whether you're buying or selling.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Right. If I'm selling one, I'm happy that they're up
almost four percent. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So Trump's his modus operandi for a very long time
is to make out landish promises and be always the
consummate salesperson and marketer. The problem he's got, though, is
if he were to make like grandiose claims about immigration,
and he doesn't have to because they've done an unbelievable job,
but about you know, how much was coming in or
(25:49):
how much they've stopped or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
People would kind of sort of have to take his.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Word for it or look it up or whatever, because
you know, I'm sitting here talking to a microphone in
my home.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I can't see people crossing the border. I don't live
on the border.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
On the other hand, everybody, everybody is an expert on
the economy, their personal economy.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
They know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You can't sales pitch your way through on people's personal economies, right,
And you know, Trump, at his vaunted instincts. He's how
he's got to be able to understand that Biden didn't.
Biden was a miserable failure at it, and I'm a
little surprised to see Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Not doing a little better job at it. But anyway,
handful of headlines.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
New York Times, I wonder in my own life, at
what point I'll stop being surprised when they bring me
the bill at a restaurant or when they give me
the total at the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I still am surprised as of today. Yeah, what how
do I spend? Are you sure you're ringing that upright?
I would agree completely, Yeah, New York Times.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
As you might expect a Bella Coast, Trump points fingers
in defending his record on the economy, lying, liar, lied
his way through lies and distortions and wrong statistics and
highly selective misleading use of statistics.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Blah blah blah. Washington Post Trump attempts to domestic reset
with fast paced White House address, and they pointed out that, yeah,
his pace was much much faster than he used It
seems like a fair headline from the Washington Post. Oh yeah,
I would agree. Here's your lead.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
President Donald Trump bashed his predecessor and praised his own
policy achievements. In his first year back in office, delivering
an eighteen minute live address to the nation on Wednesdays,
he seeks to reverse lagging public opinion numbers and convince
Americans that he is addressing their economic concerns. I think
that is a perfectly fair assessment. They certainly are a
bit critical in the wah poe during the article, but
you know why not. Let's see the Wall Street journal
(27:53):
Trump defends handling of economy, announces military dividend. President Trump
defended his handling in the today seventeen hundred and seventy
six dollars warrior dividend check for active duty service members
he said would be paid for with tariff revenue. And again,
you know, a mix of description and criticism.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Where he was right, where he's wrong. As journalism. In short,
I think that's fine.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
The New York Post has clearly staked its stake. Is
that a thing on pro trumpiness? Trump tells America I'm
fixing Biden's mess in chart filled prime time address and
does not have even the slightest caveat or caution, much less.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Criticism for the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And they reproduced several of his charts, which actually are
pretty interesting. You really have to take in a broad
variety of news if you want to know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's the arm Strong in Getty show, Armstrong in getting.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So speaking in classrooms, I wanted to talk a little
bit about media and information bubbles, and I was gonna
(29:18):
mention that. Well, I did mention on the air the
other day that a friend of mine has a professional
relationship with a person and it would not be appropriate
for my friend to call them out and disagree with
them on politics. But this person was commenting on the
Charlie Kirk assassination. And this fella, who my friend identified
(29:38):
as a very nice guy and quite reasonably brian, just
an overall good dude, was one hundred percent convinced that
the young man who killed Charlie Kirk was a flag
waving MAGA conservative who resented Charlie for not being maga enough.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Was completely convinced of that.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And I'm saving it for a cam Us Madness update
probably tomorrow. But the head of the Association of University Professors,
which is tens of thousands of university professors, was.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Out the other day saying, oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It was a right wing activist who killed Charlie Kirk
and exactly the same thing. And if there's a theme
to this, and I've got a couple more like exhibits,
it's that a lot of folks who think some crazys.
They're probably not bad people, but they're used to looking
(30:35):
in some fairly normal, mainstreamish places for information and what
they're getting is just wildly inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I'm thinking of a couple of people I know who
have really warped views of what's going on in the world.
It's not because they're bad, it's just because of where
they go to get their information.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Right, And so yeah, yeah, and you've got to be
a better consumer of news. But maybe the theme, the
overall theme, is when you're run into people who think
this crazy stuff, it could well be they've just never
heard an alternative explanation, and be nice. Be what we
(31:15):
on the right tend to be, which is I'll listen
to you now if you don't mind, can you listen
to me because I haven't heard you know?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
How about if I go with back away slowly and
keep my eye on their hands.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
A lot of work.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Two free Beacon. Let mean the major AI platforms, which
have emerged as significant American news sources, especially for the young,
describe Charlie Kirk's assassination as motivated by right wing ideology
and downplay left wing violence as quote exceptionally rare. According
(31:50):
to the Free Beacon, when asked to name recent assassination
in the US motivated by right wing ideology, multiple chat bots,
including chat GPT, Google's Gemini Perplexity all listed Charlie Kirk's
murder as a right wing act of violence.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, obviously, Jimmy Kimmel got misled by this.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
He seemed to actually believe that Gemini's chatbot made the
provably false statement that quote. The assassination of conservative active
as Charlie Kirk in September of twenty five has been
identified by researchers as the only fatal right wing terrorist
incident in the US during the first half of twenty
twenty five, and they go into some detail. Keep in
(32:32):
mind that a recent Free Beacon analysis we talked about
this on the air found that Al Jazeera was one
of the two most popular sources used by AI chatbots
for news about the Israel Hamas war, and there were
zero Israel Learn Leaning sites that were in their top ten.
I think it was so garbage in, garbage out. Then
(32:57):
you've got Hannah Nicole Jones, Nicole Hannah Joe Owns, whatever
her name is. New York Times the Crazy Lady, the
racist who came out with a sixteen nineteen project wrote
recently that public mourning for Kirk is unsettling. In the
wake of Kirk's death, individuals and institutions across the nation
(33:18):
moved not just to condemn his killings in political violence,
but to venerate him. It was unsettling to see many
politicians from across the political spectrum speak with reverence about Kirk.
And she went on to describe how he was a.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Man who spread hate.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Said black women lacked the brain processing power to otherwise
be taken seriously, which is a deliberate misquoting of Charlie
And again that's in.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The New York Times. Wow, flamingly.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You know, liberal obviously, but you could be a person
serious about getting.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Information and be completely misled.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Well, on the same story, but a different version of it.
I was talking to somebody yesterday who is completely into
this story that that poor kid in Utah is going
to be executed for something he didn't do. He was framed,
he was a patsy like Lee Harvey Hoswald that the
the FBI planted that gun and they're pinning it on
(34:25):
him and it was the masade working with our FBI
to kill Charlie killed Charlie Kirk, and they're gonna pin
it on this kid, and this poor kid is going
to be executed. And how I mean this person was
upset that this innocent kid is going to be executed
for something he didn't do.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
God unplugged the Internet, and I think that comes from
the Candace Owen's crowd. Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna
ask that.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, all right, final note on this topic because Nelly
Bowles is so great writing in the free press.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
And of the left. Yes, but why so, like why
for you and I?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Is it so obviously he was half crazy also upset
about the trans thing, but he's dating a trans person
and blah blah blah suicidal And I just believe that story.
Why do you think you and I are the way
we are on that story, which I believe is the
accurate version. By the way, I don't know Armstrong and
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