January 7, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Seizing Venezuelan oil & fear gripping Caracas
- ZZ Top & what Wall Street is expecting in 2026
- Parenting is exhausting & socialist hypocrisy
- Pork butt & C.E.S. Day 1
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
They've been after this guy for years and years and years,
and you know, he's a violent guy. He gets up
there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit,
but he's a violent guy and he's killed millions of people.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, I mentioned I was listening to a podcast yesterday
with some expert from some think tank and these were
definitely not Trump friendly people. But the guy from the
think tank said, look, we've indicted the guy, we had
a whatever, fifty million dollar bounty on his head, all
these different things, but nobody ever acted to follow through
on any of this stuff, and it needed to happen
(01:01):
at some point as they continued to do more and
more business with our number one enemies Iran, Russia, and
China right right, And interestingly, it was in an article
I was reading about Democrats who were pissed off that
their party is just knee jerk condemning it after they'd
been calling for the ouster Maduro for years and years.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
But one of the folks said.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, everybody's saying there could be unintended consequences. There are
unintended consequences to leaving.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The guy in office.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Come on, we can't be against every action, which I
thought was a very good and reasonable thing to say. Michael,
do we have the theme music? I was looking for
a ready as Hanson advised you on that, don't play it,
just let me know. No, oh Jack, it's all turned
into a huaigo di tronos.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And that's all we.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Can lose to use because of weird copyright laws. It's
turned into a Game of Thrones. That's in Spanish, juego
di tronos.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's what that music was. Yes, that's the theme for
the game. I never watched.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Got I'm going to watch the first episode I've ever
seen tonight, episode one, season one, Oh good. Decided to
watch that so I enjoy the hell out of it,
the whole thing. Yeah, anyway, and the idea of the
Game of Thrones is, you know, you want to be
the king. There's a lot of people that want to
take you down all the time, a lot of intrigue,
(02:24):
a lot of this and that, and you know, whether
it's Shakespeare, Game of Thrones are the history of every
country on Earth.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's a common thing.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
A lot of power, a lot of big players, a
lot of small players, and sometimes the small players can
have an incredibly big effect, have an incredibly big effect
on the outcome. So just to throw out a little
game of Thrones the description for you, and we got
a bunch of players here, President Trump. Now this is
the king. Okay, this is the big power. Your Game
(02:54):
of Thrones fans, you can fill in the names if
you like. He announced, Hey, we're running Venezuela and be
the Venezuelan interim authorities.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
How interim, that remains to be seen.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
We'll give the US between thirty and fifty million barrels
of sanctioned oil, with the proceeds overseen by the White House,
to quote benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States,
said Donald J.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Trump. That's a heck of an and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Venezuela's Ministry of Information didn't respond to requests for comments.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Asked Trump, what we're supposed to say.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And US, sure everybody wins.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
After the US captures strong Man Nicholas Muduro, trumpet House,
the US, we take control of Venezuela's oil reserves and
bring American oil companies into the country to rebuild the
oil industry in infrastructure, said Donald J.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
What we want to do is fix up the oil,
fix up the country, bring the country back, and then
have elections. Whoa say, the dedicated klepto narco communists running
the country and being gone. Nothing we can do about that.
But what's this about elections? They will not go down,
(04:07):
not swinging moving along the Wall Street Journal editorial board
or I'm sorry, it's an individual writer. Thor Halverson says,
Tell Delsi Rodriguez, you're fired, and he goes into the
very game of thronesy. Vice president of Venezuela, Delsi Rodriguez,
(04:28):
who is an iron fisted car Tell friendly communist torturer.
She designed and ran the torture programs for Venezuela. She's
our new buddy that's gonna lead the reform. Wait what Yeah,
And she said very unfriendly things the day we took Maduro,
then said nicer things a couple days later when she
(04:50):
rethought it. Or I don't know what's going on in
her head. She's got to be doing a lot of
calculating every single day. Yeah, if i'm too friendly with Trump,
I'm gonna get a bullet in my head. If I'm
not friendly enough with Trump, I'm probably gonna get a
bullet in my head because they think that I'm gonna
upset the whole apple cart of making money off of drugs. Yeah,
I'm seeing one commonality between those two outcomes, and it's
(05:12):
the old b in the h Here are a few
sentences worthy of consideration to understand miss Rodriguez in her
situation which Jack is so poetically described to US reporting
to create indicate that Trump administration has struck a deal
with Rodriguez, mister Medora's iron fisted vice president, positioning her
as a transitional leader. She has, it seems, convinced US
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officials she can dismantle the Maduro dictatorship, which would have
to include demobilizing the armed militias, these quasi governmental goon
squads they have roaming the streets.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
How the hell is she gonna do that?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh, that's just a job number one. There's more disbanding
the dreaded secret police, and if you have time after dinner,
ending the regime's drug empire.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But this is a fantasy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Miss Rodriguez will fail spectacularly, leading to the final unraveling.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
One more little bit of info.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Venezuela is not like Mexico, where the state coexists uneasily
with the cartels who are over here.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Here, the cartel is the state.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Factions like enriched generals, intelligent chiefs and narco traffickers won't
surrender power in some Washington broker deal. Miss Rodriguez herself
faces insurmountable obstacles, including her utter lack of legitimacy. Never
elected vice president, she has less authority than Maduro, the
usurper who appointed her, and hatred for miss Rodriguez among
(06:41):
Venezuelans is visceral. She tortured my dad to death style hatred.
She's got to be working a deal with somebody. Excuse me,
it's the superfluw God.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I hope not. She's got to be working a deal
to leave the country.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Is she She's got to get out of there?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Of course. I don't know why weave not.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
She's got bigger Hawaii vos than most men on earth.
I don't know why we'd give her a deal. Screw
you that, so you know you made your bed, sleep
in it. This is ain't gonna work out for you.
That's that sucks for you. And I don't know why
we'd make her a deal, but she she's got to
be thinking, who can I Where can I steal a
couple of million and you know, get some plastic surgery
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and disappear to another country.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right right?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I mean, seriously, I can't imagine how she doesn't end
up either in jail or dead.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
At the end of the month.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
If I were her advisor, I would say, here's our strategy.
We feign full cooperation with Trump, but give him as
much cooperation as it takes to last out the next
three years, because three years is a blip, and we
just survive for three years. Then we go back to
running the thing the way we've always run it. If
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jd Vance gets elected, well then we got to rethink
it again. But if some Democrat gets selected, then we
go back to running the place. She's got to be
in contact with those heavyweights in the cartels, though on
a regular basis, in the head of the military one
hundred percent. Now, I mean they're they're they're sitting next
to her in her office. Yeah, and keep telling him
to look, I'm on your side, all right, right, I
(08:18):
don't want to end this. What's a good juego titronos
without a super villain, and that is probably Dio's Dado Cabello.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Play the theme, Play the theme.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Cabell I said, in a forbidding voice. That's right, that's
all we can play because of Carpie.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Right lows. Here's a picture of the dude.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
He's got a big wooden bat with notches on it
that he's evidently going to bash somebody's head in.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Uh he uh.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
He has an hour's long weekly show on state television
called Bringing Down the Hammer to make sure everybody's good
and terrorized he is, Is that like my two dads
or something like that? Is at a sitcoms? Not like
that at all? No, no, uh. Cabello is the belligerent
and eccentric, de facto leader of Venezuela's security forces and
(09:09):
brutal militias. He's a wild card in the country's future.
He's long positioned himself as the regime's fiercest defender, commanding
some of the collectivos, which are the armed gangs, who
roared through Caracas on motorbikes this week in a menacing
show of force. Yeah, I was wondering I was just
gonna say off the air, you made a very apt comparison. Yeah,
(09:32):
he seems like the pregosion of Venezuela. That that guy
that that Putin had and then at some point turned
on Putin and Putin had to have him killed.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But that kind of a guy.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But there was a Washington Post headline yesterday Fear grips Caracas.
That's the big city there in Venezuelae grips Caracas as
a new wave of repression is unleashed in Venezuela. And
I couldn't and I was looking for is a Washington
Post just you know, hoping for this so much and
coming up with as many examples as they can to
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make it seem like Trump has made things worse for
people there, or.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Is this actually happening? Well, it is, it is.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
He the very night of the snatching, Cabayo is toting
a rifle and riling up black uniform security forces before
they patrolled Caracas to prevent citizens from protesting in favor
of the abduction or against the government. Doubting is treason,
he bellowed, before telling the armed group now off to
battle in the streets for victory.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But that's how they went for us.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't want to have evil gangs riding motorcycles through
the streets beating protesters down. But we don't want that
place to turn into chaos either. We don't want people
in the streets and looting banks and blah blah blah
blah blah, which happens. What a beautiful transition, Jack to
the next chapter of the Juego de Tronos. Give me
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one second of the theme, Michael Keba, there it is.
So there's no Juego de tronos without a beloved princess
who you hope can win. Right?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That would be Maria I can never remember middle name.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Machado, who is the freely elected leader of the opposition.
She's actually the most powerful politician in Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Why not let her rule well?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
As Trump said, and he said it poorly, he said
it badly. I hate the way he said it, but
I see his point. She doesn't control the apparatus of
power in the country, the cartel, the cartel, learnment does
the Govtel's keep working on it. The cabal of thieves
(11:49):
runs the government, the security forces, the army, the.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Police, and to boot them out.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
To debathify Venezuela to compare it with the Rock would
bring on absolute chaos and then a real.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Game of thronesy battle for supremacy.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, and then we would probably have to have boots
on the ground unless we were just gonna let it
fall into anarchy for a while.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
That would be very, very ugly.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, this story is not over right. Oh no, no no.
I read with interest a piece by Holman Jenkins, who
is a terrific writer rights mostly for the Wall Street Journal,
but he says a puzzle for today's the sluggish response
to the opposition led by ms Maschado. Take over a
floor in a Washington hotel, hold court, plaster your message
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all over global media. Get a plane and painted in
the national colors. Announce a date for your return to Caracas.
When two hundred thousand turn out at the airport to
greet you, it's over the country's yours. M That would
be a very game of thronesy. Or I'm sorry, jwego
di tronos move Then final final note, every juego de
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tronos he needs a dragon and jack for the United States.
Dragon was that the growler? The growler the signal jamming
jet that helped capture King Maduro. It's this amazing bit
of technology. It's very classified. The Boeing EA eighteen G Growler,
(13:20):
specialist in electronic warfare, what's a neglected part of combat,
has enjoyed a renaissance in electronic warfare. You want to
knock out communication, radar, other signals, and the Growler, whoo,
it gets it done better than a dragon in this Oh,
I go de tronos.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I don't know what I think of the name Growler,
but it'll do. Okay, we got more on the waist
to here. Is it true you guys were offering a
million dollars to shave your beards? It's true. It was
a million dollars per man. Was that Gillette? They deny
it and during a Super Bowl commercial, Yeah, so three
(14:00):
mil Gillette to Zeazy Top to shave your beard.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So we passed, We passed, and we got out and
our fans loved it. The Reverend Billy Gibbons there of
zz Top, saying back in their heyday, they were offered
a million dollars each to shave their beards by the
Gillette company.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Wow, as a promotion. I don't know how you say
no to that. Boy?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Adjusted for inflation. That's a couple of mill probably because
they were already so successful, I guess. And the fan
what if you just know the hits go back to
their first two albums, thank you, end of screen?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Holy crap?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Is it good?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, yeah, And there's hardly a cooler guy in the
world than Billy F.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Gibbons. Oh please, But I can't imagine saying no to that.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But he thought the fans really liked it because they
kind of kept with there, you know, we're cool guys,
not answered to the man.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Not of course. Back then, selling out was still a
bit of a thing. Selling out is no longer a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Everyone sells out all the time for clicks, money, whatever, constantly. Yeah.
I remember, like the first tour sponsor, which may have
been Budweiser, a Pepsi or something. Whoever was the who
or whatever got murdered for Oh no, your corporate sellout.
We do this for a living, you dummies. I remember
when they use a Beatles song from Nike commercial in
the eighties and it was, oh my god. Well, now
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everything is part of a commercial or a commercial enterprise
of some sort.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's not necessarily a good thing.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I was too cynical because I've talked about, you know,
the confluence of art and commerce in music and now
it's changed through the years. But anyway, that's a topic
for another time.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I was looking at Bloomberg.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
They had a headline Here's almost everything Wall Street expects
in twenty twenty six, And we talk a lot about
AI around here and the economy, and if you're paying
attention to all you know that they are very, very
linked to all these records the stock market's been setting
for the last year. It's like seven companies and it's almost.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All about AI.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Anyway, according to Bloomberg, this is what Wall Street is expecting,
astronomical expenditure on AI, uncertain rates of return, uneven pace
of adoption by now, every firm on Wall Street is
well aware of the risks around artificial intelligence. But when
it comes to the year ahead and they talk to
many many investment firms across the investment out looks more
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than sixty institutions compiled by Bloomberg News, the optimism is
almost universal. Very few advocate walking away from what they
describe as a revolutionary technology. So the bloom is definitely
not off the rows of AI for the big firms
and they're investing in twenty six.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I'd say, well, I think we've become so used to
the incredibly frantic pace of change. The idea that this
might take a few years more to work out seems
to a lot of people like, ah, I I'll never
go anywhere and give it time. A couple of setbacks
here and there, you know, people killing themselves or some
of these hallucinations that are hilarious or whatever. Most of
these firms still think, No, this is gonna be the
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biggest thing, and we need to be on board.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I think it'll be the.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Ruin of mankind. I haven't changed my mind on that either,
but know what you're going to do absolutely will be
the ruin of mankind, no doubt about it. Got a
tail as old as time about socialists, among other things.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
On the way, stay here, Armstrong and getty. The American Heart.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Association has revived the theory that light drinking may be
good for you. They've revived that the theory actually needed
reviving because it was found passed out behind a dumpster
hugging a burrito.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I haven't heard the latest drinking is good for you.
Drinking is bad for you. Whatever, Yeah, whenever, do whatever
you want to do. But the new dietary guidelines are
going to be announced today by RFK Junior. We have
an inkleaning of what they're going to be, so maybe
we'll get into that a little bit later. And who
cares what the government tells to eat anyway, especially after
(18:00):
sted COVID, what the CDC or FDA recommends whatever. Yeah,
I'm not listening to them. I listened to an Instagram influencer.
It's got huge muscles. He tells me what to eat
before I get to what I was gonna get to.
This is I'm trying to concentrate today. I got a
number of real life things I'm dealing with.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Katie, you probably know this.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You're with child, You're with your first child, and it's
very excited for you.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Parenting is exhausting. I'm just just throwing that out there.
I've heard it's never ending exhausting.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, that's that's the key line right now.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
If I ever say I'm tired, everybody goes, oh.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You're not going to sleep for the next eighteen years,
and all the law allows you to punch them right
in the face for that. Yeah, you should punch them
into face for that. But I knew this at the
time when I when I started, I knew it was
going to be this way, that it was going to
be physically exhausting in the beginning, but mentally not that challenging.
It's pretty easy to know what to do, you know,
keep them fed, watered and changing diaper. Now then it
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wasn't better as they got older though it's not physically tiring. Mentally,
the challenge just gets ignormous as they as they get
into the older ages. So that's an interesting shift the
first the first part with the physical tiredness. Yes, everybody
will tell you that they should just shut up. Yeah,
it becomes much like negotiating with the Maduro regime as
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they move into the teenage years. There are a few
good solutions, only options or something.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I don't know. There are no good choices here.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
There's just the least bad choice, but physically not near
as tiring. So we've played this clip a couple of
days in a row. It's so good. Why not play
it a third day in a row? Who is this
woman for mom, Donnie? It doesn't really matter. She's you know,
close to him, she is see a Weaver his New
(19:51):
York City Tenant Rights or tenant Protection director. New York
City has the most renters of any city in America.
Not surprisingly, it's a lot of people. She has power,
and the fact that anyone is in a high level
of government anywhere, let alone in New York City, it's
just amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Who would say this?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
really treated property as an individualized good and not a
collective good. And we are going to and transitioning to
treating it as a collective good and towards a model
of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,
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and it will mean that families, especially white families, but
some pot families who are homeowners as well, are going
to have a different relationship to property than the one
that we currently have.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
A different relationship to property.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
That's a lot of words to say people shouldn't be
able to own homes. I guess the government will own
all this land to decide who gets to live where. Yes, yeah,
that's nevermind that that property rights has been a cornerstone
of liberty for five hundred years in the Western world.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I'm sorry, more like a thousand years.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Well, she adds in the extra dose of I mean
because you know, going a way back, your socialists didn't
think you should be able to own land or own property.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
But it's specifically a white supremacy thing, which is just fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Well you could hear her perk up when she threw
white people, especially because she knows how well that plays
with her bizarre neo Marxist crowd.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Acually white families, but some pot family to her homeowners
as well, are going to have a different relationship to property.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Does that include you?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
She is a white woman who, it turns out, has
a one point six million dollar home in Tennessee. One
point six million dollar home in Tennessee. That's a pretty
nice home. Uh So, as always happens with your socialist crowd.
They mean other people, I guess or something. I don't
know what that is. It's it's very, very weird, but
it's as old as socialism. What's right, Yeah, the Bolsheviks, sure,
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the intellectual elites forcing it on the masses are going
back to Karl mart It's so many socialists are just loser,
lazy scumbags who their lives are fine, and they though
they live very comfortable lives off of other people usually,
but they want socialism for everybody. I'd never quite understood
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the philosophy, how they fitted in with their own personalities,
and it's been on my mind a lot because I'm
into James Joyce right now.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'm reading Ulysses.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
As I've mentioned eight thousand times. I'm seventy five percent
of the way through as of last night, by the way,
so I'm very excited I got through the two hardest chapters.
But at the same time that I'm reading Ulysses, I'm
listening to this highly acclaimed biography of James Joyce has
written many many years ago, and he was a socialist
and it's just amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
In his personal life, he was a dead beat.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
He would borrow money from friends and family and not
pay him back until eventually they'd cut him off. He
ate out all the time, and people would say to him, dude,
you're broke, you can't afford your rent. You come across
a little money and you go out to eat in
a nice restaurant.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Well, I deserve to enjoy the fruits. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I mean, just socialists are what are they just their
babies or they're selfish er.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
But not only does their philosophy I guess my point
is this, not only does their philosophy not work in
that you run out of other people's money, they don't
even live.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Like decent people at all. Like they're the worst of.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Humanity when it comes to dealing with the relationship with
money and stuff. And the thing that galls me the most,
maybe aside from the denial of liberty among these people,
is they have appointed themselves as so wise and benevolent
and good that they will decide who gets what, who
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lives where I will be in charge of that. Imagine
the egotism of thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
You should decide that.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I mean, it's astonishing. It ought to be greeted with
an immediate go to hell please. Karl Marx was exactly
like James Joyce just fifty years earlier, without constantly borrowing
money from people.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And wanted to have nice clothes and eat out.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But he didn't support himself, so he was always in
debt and bringing down other people around him. And this
is just anecdotal, but but in my life, the people
that were the most conservative that I've known, as far
away from socialism as you can get, tend to drive
older cars, vacation, reasonably, live in medium sized homes, that
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sort of thing. It's the socialist crowd that wants to
go out to nice restaurants and travel to fancy places
and blah blah blah. Your own philosophy doesn't make sense mathematically,
and then your.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Lifestyle what the hell? So?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Dedicated capitalist Joe Getty, for instance, married his wife in
our local church and then we drove to the Poconos
for our honeymoon. Zorin Mumdani, dedicated communist had a three
day wedding festival on another continent with his IVY League professor, filmmaker,
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father and mother.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The rest of it.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
He's got money to burn. He came from enormous wealth
and god the how do people fall for this ass?
And the woman who says home ownership shouldn't exist has
a one point six million dollar home right right now?
How's this for a howler? Unless you had more on
that particular topic. Do you remember we featured Washington State
(25:30):
Representative Sean Scott a few months ago. He was the
guy who was advocating taxing the big tech corporations like
Amazon right out of Seattle because they're they're snapping up
all the rental housing and causing the you know, the
the housing market to be too tight and blah blah blah,
and and you know, several of us thought, yeah, that'd
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be great.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I tell you what, yank the tech out of Seattle.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
See how you're doing, then, chum, you know, go ahead,
you finance all of your socialist dreams anyway. So that's
the same who was interviewed the other day by Brandy Cruz.
This is Washington Representative Sean Scott being asked the obvious
question socialism never ever works. Let's start with ninety Michael.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I want you to give me one example, uh huh
of socialism you think working well somewhere.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
A good example of socialism working well somewhere. It's this
is a really really cool question. I think of Cuban particular,
very very high literacy rate, number one, number two, extremely
strong commitment to public health. So that's one example that
I can think of that would resonate with pretty much
anybody in our state who cares about education or healthcare.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Would you disagree with that? Wow?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Jack, would you like to knock that softball? Four hundred
and fifty feet over the fence. Wow, that is absolutely crazy.
How old is this guy. He looks to be late twenties,
early thirties. That's sort of the prime age for radical
leftists who's gotten a little power.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Dig more into Cuba and what the reality of his
reality is of a living in Cuba.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh, he's living a fantasy. I mean huh. He reminds
me of Christopher Hitchins, who is absolutely loved.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Didn't agree with all his policy certainly, but he was
a big time socialist when he is young. And he
went to Cuba and lived there and was gonna work
on a coffee farm or something like that, right show,
blah blah blah. And he was there for a while
and realized, Okay, I'm not allowed to go where I want,
I'm not allowed to say what I want to say,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and got out of
their fast and.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The standard of living is miserable.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, but because they've got some government furnished healthcare and
allegedly education that's not true, by the way, the yeah
literacy figures they always throw around, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
An absolute lie.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, and they're all driving cars from nineteen sixty six
because nobody can afford anything else and they have no industry,
and it's undy.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Here's all you need to know about these countries.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Really, people risk their lives, them and their children to
get on and go through the ocean to get out
of there. That really is all you need to know.
But wait, there's more. He goes on people flee.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
On makeshift rafts and die in the ocean to flee
Cuba for the United States.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
I guess it, yeah, And I think that that is
something that absolutely we have to be sensitive to. But
you asked me about institutions that are working really really well.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
About places socialism is working, and you chose a country
that people will risk their lives to flee from this
to this country. There's a reason for that, Sean.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
There was a revolution in Cuba. That is correct.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
They still do it to this day. They show up
on the beaches at Miami because they would rather be
here and would risk their lives in shark infested water
to flee the country that you just gave me an example.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Of Washington Representative Sean Scott, you're an fing idiot, and
anybody who elected this guy, you're an e fing idiot.
For electing an e fing idiot? Are you hitting me?
How stupid? Can our politics become what's the next electing dogs?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I think that's the next step. Let's give them one one.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Surely, Jack, surely this guy has one coherent idea and
or defense of socialism.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
And if this, if the situation were reversed, the injuries
and the ailments that they sustain as a result of
migrating to a place where they believe that they're going
to be better off, I believe that they can be
treated in a much better way than American health care
facilities are currently able to treat people. So that's one
example that I can think of of socialism working very
well in public health and in education.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
All right, can you made that whole thing? Hanson?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Let us get that whole thing, and hooray for Brandy Cruz.
Can you imagine how miserable you'd have to be to
try to craft a raft and go out and a
raft and go out in the ocean with the decent
chance children dying or being killed by your own government
if they catch you trying to leave.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Can you imagine how desperate you'd have to be? Right?
And then if you did not track with that last clip.
His argument was that.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Well, having fled Cuba in desperation and come to the
United States, if they like got injured on the journey,
they'd have gotten better healthcare in Cuba.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That was his argument.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Did I mention Representative Sean Scott of Washington State, You're
an efing idiot. You should never if somebody asks you
what we should have for dinner, don't offer an opinion.
You're too stupid to have one. Good Lord, if your
wife had I don't know if he has a wife asks.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You, do he turn left or right? Here? Just remain mute.
You're too fing stupid.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
To offer an opinion on that, Good Lord.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
This guy's in government in.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Washington, check yourself. I guess the one thing I've learned
in the last couple of months from mayor of New
York or the mayor there in Washington or whatever this
guy is. You have to constantly fight the socialism thing
and make the arguments.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I thought they were tired.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
And like it was boring to people, but apparently you
have to keep doing it. Yeah, as you know, one
of my jihads, now perhaps my number one jahad that
you know come to in the last ten fifteen years
is that you have to keep making the arguments for liberty.
We got very very lazy and kind of well, just
lazy and cocky as Americans that everybody understands how great
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liberty is. Our kids will just absorb it around them.
Nobody will teach them otherwise, so we don't have to
make a concerted effort to teach them. Well, the Marxists
have moved into our schools. They are teaching them otherwise,
and we're losing the battle. Wow, that is something else.
Another big NFL coach got fired on what do they
call that Black Monday or black Yeah, black day or
something like that, very dark day, dark day, among other
(31:55):
things we have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Stay here.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
McDonald's is facing a lossuit that accuses them of falsely
claiming against mcgrib sandwich contains real pork rib meat when
it's actually made of restructured shoulder, heart and scalded stomach.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, but people don't.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Get as excited when you say the MC's stomach is back.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Oh, heart and scalded stomach. You that's what the McRib is. Well,
it's reconstituted.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Wow, we did like big butts and I cannot lie
Judy and I got a big old smoked pork butt
the other day.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh that is so good. That's the best part of
the pig. Nice butt, porky.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
So the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is going
on right now.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You attended several years ago. How many years ago was that, Michael?
Oh jeez, about four years ago, five years ago? I
guess yeah, uh huh? What's it?
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Is?
Speaker 5 (33:00):
It?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Crazy crap? It's crazy crowded. You can barely walk.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I would like to go someday, just walk around check
stuff out, just more from a the way companies, you know,
trot out their new stuff standpoint, Then it's.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Interesting because there's really cool stuff and then there's absolute crap.
And there's these Chinese companies that come in and you
can't even pronounce the names and they barely speak English
and they're just selling.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Junk, you know. So it's a weird dynamic.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
You know, you got your mate like Sony, and then
you got these brands you've never heard of.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, that's all, that's fine, but it is intriguing.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
That's kind of interesting because we mostly buy junk. So
maybe from a walking around there looking for what's cool standpoint,
it seems like, why are you here with your crap?
People buy crap all the time, this crap that doesn't work,
so maybe that's why they're there.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
The Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now, and uh,
I don't know what journalists wrote this, but the highlights
from day one. The biggest buzzword in the air at
the sea is physical AI. That's in Nvidia's term for
AI models that are trained in a virtual environment using
computer generated synthetic synthetic data.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I have no idea what that means.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I like when they use terms like that that they
should know nobody has any idea what that means, but
they just move.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
On as if that's a common generated is synthetic data.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Synthetic data then deployed as physical machines once they've mastered
their purpose.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
So I yes, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
It doesn't give any examples, though I assume it would be
like rumbas, fancy roombas.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I don't know that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Well, actually, if you want next hour, I've got a
great article on the technologies that will probably change our
lives this year, which include robots. I mean, it's gonna
be your early adapters, who who grab them and have
them in their homes. But yeah, people just maybe it's
all the damn science fiction, but people want humanoid looking
computer machines. Certainly a lot of companies think we do.
(35:00):
I wonder how in how many years it'll be when
we all have some sort of human looking robot in
our house that does a lot of our tasks. Is
that going to be in ten years or sooner?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I don't know. Maybe because a common thing.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
And if it's the dishwasher, why not also have it
be a sex spot that's always with the sex spot.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Well, I'm just I'm trying to see the future.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
They've been after this guy for years and years and years,
and you know, he's a violent guy. He gets up
there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit,
but he's a violent guy and he's killed millions of people.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, I mentioned I was listening to a podcast yesterday
with some expert from some think tank and these were
definitely not Trump friendly people. But the guy from the
think tank said, look, we've indicted the guy, we had
a whatever, fifty million dollar bounty on his head, all
these different things, but nobody ever acted to follow through
on any of this stuff, and it needed to happen
(01:01):
at some point as they continued to do more and
more business with our number one enemies Iran, Russia, and
China right right, And interestingly, it was in an article
I was reading about Democrats who were pissed off that
their party is just knee jerk condemning it after they'd
been calling for the ouster Maduro for years and years.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
But one of the folks said.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, everybody's saying there could be unintended consequences. There are
unintended consequences to leaving.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The guy in office.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Come on, we can't be against every action, which I
thought was a very good and reasonable thing to say. Michael,
do we have the theme music? I was looking for
a ready as Hanson advised you on that, don't play it,
just let me know. No, oh Jack, it's all turned
into a huaigo di tronos.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And that's all we.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Can lose to use because of weird copyright laws. It's
turned into a Game of Thrones. That's in Spanish, juego
di tronos.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's what that music was. Yes, that's the theme for
the game. I never watched.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Got I'm going to watch the first episode I've ever
seen tonight, episode one, season one, Oh good. Decided to
watch that so I enjoy the hell out of it,
the whole thing. Yeah, anyway, and the idea of the
Game of Thrones is, you know, you want to be
the king. There's a lot of people that want to
take you down all the time, a lot of intrigue,
(02:24):
a lot of this and that, and you know, whether
it's Shakespeare, Game of Thrones are the history of every
country on Earth.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's a common thing.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
A lot of power, a lot of big players, a
lot of small players, and sometimes the small players can
have an incredibly big effect, have an incredibly big effect
on the outcome. So just to throw out a little
game of Thrones the description for you, and we got
a bunch of players here, President Trump. Now this is
the king. Okay, this is the big power. Your Game
(02:54):
of Thrones fans, you can fill in the names if
you like. He announced, Hey, we're running Venezuela and be
the Venezuelan interim authorities.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
How interim, that remains to be seen.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
We'll give the US between thirty and fifty million barrels
of sanctioned oil, with the proceeds overseen by the White House,
to quote benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States,
said Donald J.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Trump. That's a heck of an and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Venezuela's Ministry of Information didn't respond to requests for comments.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Asked Trump, what we're supposed to say.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And US, sure everybody wins.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
After the US captures strong Man Nicholas Muduro, trumpet House,
the US, we take control of Venezuela's oil reserves and
bring American oil companies into the country to rebuild the
oil industry in infrastructure, said Donald J.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
What we want to do is fix up the oil,
fix up the country, bring the country back, and then
have elections. Whoa say, the dedicated klepto narco communists running
the country and being gone. Nothing we can do about that.
But what's this about elections? They will not go down,
(04:07):
not swinging moving along the Wall Street Journal editorial board
or I'm sorry, it's an individual writer. Thor Halverson says,
Tell Delsi Rodriguez, you're fired, and he goes into the
very game of thronesy. Vice president of Venezuela, Delsi Rodriguez,
(04:28):
who is an iron fisted car Tell friendly communist torturer.
She designed and ran the torture programs for Venezuela. She's
our new buddy that's gonna lead the reform. Wait what Yeah,
And she said very unfriendly things the day we took Maduro,
then said nicer things a couple days later when she
(04:50):
rethought it. Or I don't know what's going on in
her head. She's got to be doing a lot of
calculating every single day. Yeah, if i'm too friendly with Trump,
I'm gonna get a bullet in my head. If I'm
not friendly enough with Trump, I'm probably gonna get a
bullet in my head because they think that I'm gonna
upset the whole apple cart of making money off of drugs. Yeah,
I'm seeing one commonality between those two outcomes, and it's
(05:12):
the old b in the h Here are a few
sentences worthy of consideration to understand miss Rodriguez in her
situation which Jack is so poetically described to US reporting
to create indicate that Trump administration has struck a deal
with Rodriguez, mister Medora's iron fisted vice president, positioning her
as a transitional leader. She has, it seems, convinced US
(05:35):
officials she can dismantle the Maduro dictatorship, which would have
to include demobilizing the armed militias, these quasi governmental goon
squads they have roaming the streets.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
How the hell is she gonna do that?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh, that's just a job number one. There's more disbanding
the dreaded secret police, and if you have time after dinner,
ending the regime's drug empire.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But this is a fantasy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Miss Rodriguez will fail spectacularly, leading to the final unraveling.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
One more little bit of info.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Venezuela is not like Mexico, where the state coexists uneasily
with the cartels who are over here.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Here, the cartel is the state.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Factions like enriched generals, intelligent chiefs and narco traffickers won't
surrender power in some Washington broker deal. Miss Rodriguez herself
faces insurmountable obstacles, including her utter lack of legitimacy. Never
elected vice president, she has less authority than Maduro, the
usurper who appointed her, and hatred for miss Rodriguez among
(06:41):
Venezuelans is visceral. She tortured my dad to death style hatred.
She's got to be working a deal with somebody. Excuse me,
it's the superfluw God.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I hope not. She's got to be working a deal
to leave the country.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Is she She's got to get out of there?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Of course. I don't know why weave not.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
She's got bigger Hawaii vos than most men on earth.
I don't know why we'd give her a deal. Screw
you that, so you know you made your bed, sleep
in it. This is ain't gonna work out for you.
That's that sucks for you. And I don't know why
we'd make her a deal, but she she's got to
be thinking, who can I Where can I steal a
couple of million and you know, get some plastic surgery
(07:27):
and disappear to another country.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right right?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I mean, seriously, I can't imagine how she doesn't end
up either in jail or dead.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
At the end of the month.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
If I were her advisor, I would say, here's our strategy.
We feign full cooperation with Trump, but give him as
much cooperation as it takes to last out the next
three years, because three years is a blip, and we
just survive for three years. Then we go back to
running the thing the way we've always run it. If
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jd Vance gets elected, well then we got to rethink
it again. But if some Democrat gets selected, then we
go back to running the place. She's got to be
in contact with those heavyweights in the cartels, though on
a regular basis, in the head of the military one
hundred percent. Now, I mean they're they're they're sitting next
to her in her office. Yeah, and keep telling him
to look, I'm on your side, all right, right, I
(08:18):
don't want to end this. What's a good juego titronos
without a super villain, and that is probably Dio's Dado Cabello.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Play the theme, Play the theme.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Cabell I said, in a forbidding voice. That's right, that's
all we can play because of Carpie.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Right lows. Here's a picture of the dude.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
He's got a big wooden bat with notches on it
that he's evidently going to bash somebody's head in.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Uh he uh.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
He has an hour's long weekly show on state television
called Bringing Down the Hammer to make sure everybody's good
and terrorized he is, Is that like my two dads
or something like that? Is at a sitcoms? Not like
that at all? No, no, uh. Cabello is the belligerent
and eccentric, de facto leader of Venezuela's security forces and
(09:09):
brutal militias. He's a wild card in the country's future.
He's long positioned himself as the regime's fiercest defender, commanding
some of the collectivos, which are the armed gangs, who
roared through Caracas on motorbikes this week in a menacing
show of force. Yeah, I was wondering I was just
gonna say off the air, you made a very apt comparison. Yeah,
(09:32):
he seems like the pregosion of Venezuela. That that guy
that that Putin had and then at some point turned
on Putin and Putin had to have him killed.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But that kind of a guy.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But there was a Washington Post headline yesterday Fear grips Caracas.
That's the big city there in Venezuelae grips Caracas as
a new wave of repression is unleashed in Venezuela. And
I couldn't and I was looking for is a Washington
Post just you know, hoping for this so much and
coming up with as many examples as they can to
(10:05):
make it seem like Trump has made things worse for
people there, or.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Is this actually happening? Well, it is, it is.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
He the very night of the snatching, Cabayo is toting
a rifle and riling up black uniform security forces before
they patrolled Caracas to prevent citizens from protesting in favor
of the abduction or against the government. Doubting is treason,
he bellowed, before telling the armed group now off to
battle in the streets for victory.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But that's how they went for us.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't want to have evil gangs riding motorcycles through
the streets beating protesters down. But we don't want that
place to turn into chaos either. We don't want people
in the streets and looting banks and blah blah blah
blah blah, which happens. What a beautiful transition, Jack to
the next chapter of the Juego de Tronos. Give me
(10:58):
one second of the theme, Michael Keba, there it is.
So there's no Juego de tronos without a beloved princess
who you hope can win. Right?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That would be Maria I can never remember middle name.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Machado, who is the freely elected leader of the opposition.
She's actually the most powerful politician in Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Why not let her rule well?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
As Trump said, and he said it poorly, he said
it badly. I hate the way he said it, but
I see his point. She doesn't control the apparatus of
power in the country, the cartel, the cartel, learnment does
the Govtel's keep working on it. The cabal of thieves
(11:49):
runs the government, the security forces, the army, the.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Police, and to boot them out.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
To debathify Venezuela to compare it with the Rock would
bring on absolute chaos and then a real.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Game of thronesy battle for supremacy.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, and then we would probably have to have boots
on the ground unless we were just gonna let it
fall into anarchy for a while.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
That would be very, very ugly.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, this story is not over right. Oh no, no no.
I read with interest a piece by Holman Jenkins, who
is a terrific writer rights mostly for the Wall Street Journal,
but he says a puzzle for today's the sluggish response
to the opposition led by ms Maschado. Take over a
floor in a Washington hotel, hold court, plaster your message
(12:34):
all over global media. Get a plane and painted in
the national colors. Announce a date for your return to Caracas.
When two hundred thousand turn out at the airport to
greet you, it's over the country's yours. M That would
be a very game of thronesy. Or I'm sorry, jwego
di tronos move Then final final note, every juego de
(12:57):
tronos he needs a dragon and jack for the United States.
Dragon was that the growler? The growler the signal jamming
jet that helped capture King Maduro. It's this amazing bit
of technology. It's very classified. The Boeing EA eighteen G Growler,
(13:20):
specialist in electronic warfare, what's a neglected part of combat,
has enjoyed a renaissance in electronic warfare. You want to
knock out communication, radar, other signals, and the Growler, whoo,
it gets it done better than a dragon in this Oh,
I go de tronos.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I don't know what I think of the name Growler,
but it'll do. Okay, we got more on the waist
to here. Is it true you guys were offering a
million dollars to shave your beards? It's true. It was
a million dollars per man. Was that Gillette? They deny
it and during a Super Bowl commercial, Yeah, so three
(14:00):
mil Gillette to Zeazy Top to shave your beard.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So we passed, We passed, and we got out and
our fans loved it. The Reverend Billy Gibbons there of
zz Top, saying back in their heyday, they were offered
a million dollars each to shave their beards by the
Gillette company.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Wow, as a promotion. I don't know how you say
no to that. Boy?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Adjusted for inflation. That's a couple of mill probably because
they were already so successful, I guess. And the fan
what if you just know the hits go back to
their first two albums, thank you, end of screen?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Holy crap?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Is it good?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, yeah, And there's hardly a cooler guy in the
world than Billy F.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Gibbons. Oh please, But I can't imagine saying no to that.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But he thought the fans really liked it because they
kind of kept with there, you know, we're cool guys,
not answered to the man.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Not of course. Back then, selling out was still a
bit of a thing. Selling out is no longer a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Everyone sells out all the time for clicks, money, whatever, constantly. Yeah.
I remember, like the first tour sponsor, which may have
been Budweiser, a Pepsi or something. Whoever was the who
or whatever got murdered for Oh no, your corporate sellout.
We do this for a living, you dummies. I remember
when they use a Beatles song from Nike commercial in
the eighties and it was, oh my god. Well, now
(15:22):
everything is part of a commercial or a commercial enterprise
of some sort.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's not necessarily a good thing.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I was too cynical because I've talked about, you know,
the confluence of art and commerce in music and now
it's changed through the years. But anyway, that's a topic
for another time.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I was looking at Bloomberg.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
They had a headline Here's almost everything Wall Street expects
in twenty twenty six, And we talk a lot about
AI around here and the economy, and if you're paying
attention to all you know that they are very, very
linked to all these records the stock market's been setting
for the last year. It's like seven companies and it's almost.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All about AI.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Anyway, according to Bloomberg, this is what Wall Street is expecting,
astronomical expenditure on AI, uncertain rates of return, uneven pace
of adoption by now, every firm on Wall Street is
well aware of the risks around artificial intelligence. But when
it comes to the year ahead and they talk to
many many investment firms across the investment out looks more
(16:20):
than sixty institutions compiled by Bloomberg News, the optimism is
almost universal. Very few advocate walking away from what they
describe as a revolutionary technology. So the bloom is definitely
not off the rows of AI for the big firms
and they're investing in twenty six.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I'd say, well, I think we've become so used to
the incredibly frantic pace of change. The idea that this
might take a few years more to work out seems
to a lot of people like, ah, I I'll never
go anywhere and give it time. A couple of setbacks
here and there, you know, people killing themselves or some
of these hallucinations that are hilarious or whatever. Most of
these firms still think, No, this is gonna be the
(17:02):
biggest thing, and we need to be on board.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I think it'll be the.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Ruin of mankind. I haven't changed my mind on that either,
but know what you're going to do absolutely will be
the ruin of mankind, no doubt about it. Got a
tail as old as time about socialists, among other things.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
On the way, stay here, Armstrong and getty. The American Heart.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Association has revived the theory that light drinking may be
good for you. They've revived that the theory actually needed
reviving because it was found passed out behind a dumpster
hugging a burrito.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I haven't heard the latest drinking is good for you.
Drinking is bad for you. Whatever, Yeah, whenever, do whatever
you want to do. But the new dietary guidelines are
going to be announced today by RFK Junior. We have
an inkleaning of what they're going to be, so maybe
we'll get into that a little bit later. And who
cares what the government tells to eat anyway, especially after
(18:00):
sted COVID, what the CDC or FDA recommends whatever. Yeah,
I'm not listening to them. I listened to an Instagram influencer.
It's got huge muscles. He tells me what to eat
before I get to what I was gonna get to.
This is I'm trying to concentrate today. I got a
number of real life things I'm dealing with.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Katie, you probably know this.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You're with child, You're with your first child, and it's
very excited for you.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Parenting is exhausting. I'm just just throwing that out there.
I've heard it's never ending exhausting.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, that's that's the key line right now.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
If I ever say I'm tired, everybody goes, oh.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You're not going to sleep for the next eighteen years,
and all the law allows you to punch them right
in the face for that. Yeah, you should punch them
into face for that. But I knew this at the
time when I when I started, I knew it was
going to be this way, that it was going to
be physically exhausting in the beginning, but mentally not that challenging.
It's pretty easy to know what to do, you know,
keep them fed, watered and changing diaper. Now then it
(19:00):
wasn't better as they got older though it's not physically tiring. Mentally,
the challenge just gets ignormous as they as they get
into the older ages. So that's an interesting shift the
first the first part with the physical tiredness. Yes, everybody
will tell you that they should just shut up. Yeah,
it becomes much like negotiating with the Maduro regime as
(19:23):
they move into the teenage years. There are a few
good solutions, only options or something.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I don't know. There are no good choices here.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
There's just the least bad choice, but physically not near
as tiring. So we've played this clip a couple of
days in a row. It's so good. Why not play
it a third day in a row? Who is this
woman for mom, Donnie? It doesn't really matter. She's you know,
close to him, she is see a Weaver his New
(19:51):
York City Tenant Rights or tenant Protection director. New York
City has the most renters of any city in America.
Not surprisingly, it's a lot of people. She has power,
and the fact that anyone is in a high level
of government anywhere, let alone in New York City, it's
just amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Who would say this?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
really treated property as an individualized good and not a
collective good. And we are going to and transitioning to
treating it as a collective good and towards a model
of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,
(20:31):
and it will mean that families, especially white families, but
some pot families who are homeowners as well, are going
to have a different relationship to property than the one
that we currently have.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
A different relationship to property.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
That's a lot of words to say people shouldn't be
able to own homes. I guess the government will own
all this land to decide who gets to live where. Yes, yeah,
that's nevermind that that property rights has been a cornerstone
of liberty for five hundred years in the Western world.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I'm sorry, more like a thousand years.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Well, she adds in the extra dose of I mean
because you know, going a way back, your socialists didn't
think you should be able to own land or own property.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
But it's specifically a white supremacy thing, which is just fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Well you could hear her perk up when she threw
white people, especially because she knows how well that plays
with her bizarre neo Marxist crowd.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Acually white families, but some pot family to her homeowners
as well, are going to have a different relationship to property.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Does that include you?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
She is a white woman who, it turns out, has
a one point six million dollar home in Tennessee. One
point six million dollar home in Tennessee. That's a pretty
nice home. Uh So, as always happens with your socialist crowd.
They mean other people, I guess or something. I don't
know what that is. It's it's very, very weird, but
it's as old as socialism. What's right, Yeah, the Bolsheviks, sure,
(21:55):
the intellectual elites forcing it on the masses are going
back to Karl mart It's so many socialists are just loser,
lazy scumbags who their lives are fine, and they though
they live very comfortable lives off of other people usually,
but they want socialism for everybody. I'd never quite understood
(22:16):
the philosophy, how they fitted in with their own personalities,
and it's been on my mind a lot because I'm
into James Joyce right now.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'm reading Ulysses.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
As I've mentioned eight thousand times. I'm seventy five percent
of the way through as of last night, by the way,
so I'm very excited I got through the two hardest chapters.
But at the same time that I'm reading Ulysses, I'm
listening to this highly acclaimed biography of James Joyce has
written many many years ago, and he was a socialist
and it's just amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
In his personal life, he was a dead beat.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
He would borrow money from friends and family and not
pay him back until eventually they'd cut him off. He
ate out all the time, and people would say to him, dude,
you're broke, you can't afford your rent. You come across
a little money and you go out to eat in
a nice restaurant.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Well, I deserve to enjoy the fruits. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I mean, just socialists are what are they just their
babies or they're selfish er.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
But not only does their philosophy I guess my point
is this, not only does their philosophy not work in
that you run out of other people's money, they don't
even live.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Like decent people at all. Like they're the worst of.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Humanity when it comes to dealing with the relationship with
money and stuff. And the thing that galls me the most,
maybe aside from the denial of liberty among these people,
is they have appointed themselves as so wise and benevolent
and good that they will decide who gets what, who
(23:43):
lives where I will be in charge of that. Imagine
the egotism of thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
You should decide that.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I mean, it's astonishing. It ought to be greeted with
an immediate go to hell please. Karl Marx was exactly
like James Joyce just fifty years earlier, without constantly borrowing
money from people.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And wanted to have nice clothes and eat out.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But he didn't support himself, so he was always in
debt and bringing down other people around him. And this
is just anecdotal, but but in my life, the people
that were the most conservative that I've known, as far
away from socialism as you can get, tend to drive
older cars, vacation, reasonably, live in medium sized homes, that
(24:28):
sort of thing. It's the socialist crowd that wants to
go out to nice restaurants and travel to fancy places
and blah blah blah. Your own philosophy doesn't make sense mathematically,
and then your.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Lifestyle what the hell? So?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Dedicated capitalist Joe Getty, for instance, married his wife in
our local church and then we drove to the Poconos
for our honeymoon. Zorin Mumdani, dedicated communist had a three
day wedding festival on another continent with his IVY League professor, filmmaker,
(25:08):
father and mother.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The rest of it.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
He's got money to burn. He came from enormous wealth
and god the how do people fall for this ass?
And the woman who says home ownership shouldn't exist has
a one point six million dollar home right right now?
How's this for a howler? Unless you had more on
that particular topic. Do you remember we featured Washington State
(25:30):
Representative Sean Scott a few months ago. He was the
guy who was advocating taxing the big tech corporations like
Amazon right out of Seattle because they're they're snapping up
all the rental housing and causing the you know, the
the housing market to be too tight and blah blah blah,
and and you know, several of us thought, yeah, that'd
(25:50):
be great.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I tell you what, yank the tech out of Seattle.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
See how you're doing, then, chum, you know, go ahead,
you finance all of your socialist dreams anyway. So that's
the same who was interviewed the other day by Brandy Cruz.
This is Washington Representative Sean Scott being asked the obvious
question socialism never ever works. Let's start with ninety Michael.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I want you to give me one example, uh huh
of socialism you think working well somewhere.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
A good example of socialism working well somewhere. It's this
is a really really cool question. I think of Cuban particular,
very very high literacy rate, number one, number two, extremely
strong commitment to public health. So that's one example that
I can think of that would resonate with pretty much
anybody in our state who cares about education or healthcare.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Would you disagree with that? Wow?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Jack, would you like to knock that softball? Four hundred
and fifty feet over the fence. Wow, that is absolutely crazy.
How old is this guy. He looks to be late twenties,
early thirties. That's sort of the prime age for radical
leftists who's gotten a little power.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Dig more into Cuba and what the reality of his
reality is of a living in Cuba.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh, he's living a fantasy. I mean huh. He reminds
me of Christopher Hitchins, who is absolutely loved.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Didn't agree with all his policy certainly, but he was
a big time socialist when he is young. And he
went to Cuba and lived there and was gonna work
on a coffee farm or something like that, right show,
blah blah blah. And he was there for a while
and realized, Okay, I'm not allowed to go where I want,
I'm not allowed to say what I want to say,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and got out of
their fast and.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The standard of living is miserable.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, but because they've got some government furnished healthcare and
allegedly education that's not true, by the way, the yeah
literacy figures they always throw around, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
An absolute lie.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, and they're all driving cars from nineteen sixty six
because nobody can afford anything else and they have no industry,
and it's undy.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Here's all you need to know about these countries.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Really, people risk their lives, them and their children to
get on and go through the ocean to get out
of there. That really is all you need to know.
But wait, there's more. He goes on people flee.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
On makeshift rafts and die in the ocean to flee
Cuba for the United States.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
I guess it, yeah, And I think that that is
something that absolutely we have to be sensitive to. But
you asked me about institutions that are working really really well.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
About places socialism is working, and you chose a country
that people will risk their lives to flee from this
to this country. There's a reason for that, Sean.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
There was a revolution in Cuba. That is correct.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
They still do it to this day. They show up
on the beaches at Miami because they would rather be
here and would risk their lives in shark infested water
to flee the country that you just gave me an example.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Of Washington Representative Sean Scott, you're an fing idiot, and
anybody who elected this guy, you're an e fing idiot.
For electing an e fing idiot? Are you hitting me?
How stupid? Can our politics become what's the next electing dogs?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I think that's the next step. Let's give them one one.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Surely, Jack, surely this guy has one coherent idea and
or defense of socialism.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
And if this, if the situation were reversed, the injuries
and the ailments that they sustain as a result of
migrating to a place where they believe that they're going
to be better off, I believe that they can be
treated in a much better way than American health care
facilities are currently able to treat people. So that's one
example that I can think of of socialism working very
well in public health and in education.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
All right, can you made that whole thing? Hanson?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Let us get that whole thing, and hooray for Brandy Cruz.
Can you imagine how miserable you'd have to be to
try to craft a raft and go out and a
raft and go out in the ocean with the decent
chance children dying or being killed by your own government
if they catch you trying to leave.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Can you imagine how desperate you'd have to be? Right?
And then if you did not track with that last clip.
His argument was that.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Well, having fled Cuba in desperation and come to the
United States, if they like got injured on the journey,
they'd have gotten better healthcare in Cuba.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That was his argument.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Did I mention Representative Sean Scott of Washington State, You're
an efing idiot. You should never if somebody asks you
what we should have for dinner, don't offer an opinion.
You're too stupid to have one. Good Lord, if your
wife had I don't know if he has a wife asks.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You, do he turn left or right? Here? Just remain mute.
You're too fing stupid.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
To offer an opinion on that, Good Lord.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
This guy's in government in.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Washington, check yourself. I guess the one thing I've learned
in the last couple of months from mayor of New
York or the mayor there in Washington or whatever this
guy is. You have to constantly fight the socialism thing
and make the arguments.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I thought they were tired.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
And like it was boring to people, but apparently you
have to keep doing it. Yeah, as you know, one
of my jihads, now perhaps my number one jahad that
you know come to in the last ten fifteen years
is that you have to keep making the arguments for liberty.
We got very very lazy and kind of well, just
lazy and cocky as Americans that everybody understands how great
(31:32):
liberty is. Our kids will just absorb it around them.
Nobody will teach them otherwise, so we don't have to
make a concerted effort to teach them. Well, the Marxists
have moved into our schools. They are teaching them otherwise,
and we're losing the battle. Wow, that is something else.
Another big NFL coach got fired on what do they
call that Black Monday or black Yeah, black day or
something like that, very dark day, dark day, among other
(31:55):
things we have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Stay here.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
McDonald's is facing a lossuit that accuses them of falsely
claiming against mcgrib sandwich contains real pork rib meat when
it's actually made of restructured shoulder, heart and scalded stomach.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, but people don't.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Get as excited when you say the MC's stomach is back.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Oh, heart and scalded stomach. You that's what the McRib is. Well,
it's reconstituted.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Wow, we did like big butts and I cannot lie
Judy and I got a big old smoked pork butt
the other day.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh that is so good. That's the best part of
the pig. Nice butt, porky.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
So the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is going
on right now.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You attended several years ago. How many years ago was that, Michael?
Oh jeez, about four years ago, five years ago? I
guess yeah, uh huh? What's it?
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Is?
Speaker 5 (33:00):
It?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Crazy crap? It's crazy crowded. You can barely walk.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I would like to go someday, just walk around check
stuff out, just more from a the way companies, you know,
trot out their new stuff standpoint, Then it's.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Interesting because there's really cool stuff and then there's absolute crap.
And there's these Chinese companies that come in and you
can't even pronounce the names and they barely speak English
and they're just selling.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Junk, you know. So it's a weird dynamic.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
You know, you got your mate like Sony, and then
you got these brands you've never heard of.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, that's all, that's fine, but it is intriguing.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
That's kind of interesting because we mostly buy junk. So
maybe from a walking around there looking for what's cool standpoint,
it seems like, why are you here with your crap?
People buy crap all the time, this crap that doesn't work,
so maybe that's why they're there.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
The Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now, and uh,
I don't know what journalists wrote this, but the highlights
from day one. The biggest buzzword in the air at
the sea is physical AI. That's in Nvidia's term for
AI models that are trained in a virtual environment using
computer generated synthetic synthetic data.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I have no idea what that means.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I like when they use terms like that that they
should know nobody has any idea what that means, but
they just move.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
On as if that's a common generated is synthetic data.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Synthetic data then deployed as physical machines once they've mastered
their purpose.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
So I yes, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
It doesn't give any examples, though I assume it would be
like rumbas, fancy roombas.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I don't know that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Well, actually, if you want next hour, I've got a
great article on the technologies that will probably change our
lives this year, which include robots. I mean, it's gonna
be your early adapters, who who grab them and have
them in their homes. But yeah, people just maybe it's
all the damn science fiction, but people want humanoid looking
computer machines. Certainly a lot of companies think we do.
(35:00):
I wonder how in how many years it'll be when
we all have some sort of human looking robot in
our house that does a lot of our tasks. Is
that going to be in ten years or sooner?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I don't know. Maybe because a common thing.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
And if it's the dishwasher, why not also have it
be a sex spot that's always with the sex spot.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Well, I'm just I'm trying to see the future.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
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