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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Let me ask you all this question.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're supposed to leave at the Bertie Sanders an alec
Alexandri Coscio QUOTEXT on.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Your to do list, putting the radio on is the
first thing today, Jewort.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Said, steal me step.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
You have a day at least for work.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
When the sun comes up, drops a kid.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Just good night.
Speaker 6 (00:22):
Joe has a thing agenda all the JERSU sees.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
No one that Joe's smiled.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
He on the eggs, Joe, thank you for letting us
be of service to you this morning. I want to
be Joe four three four eight eight two four two
one seven. We'll tell you the news of the day,
the stuff that's happened since last you checked, because you
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know you've been busy or sleeping, and while you get
your day started or wrapped up, we will tell you
what we see in the evidence behind in the debris field.
But we also want to hear what it's doing to
you where you are, because these things trickle down and
you're at the end of the trickle. That one needs
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to be rewritten. That didn't sound right coming out of
my mouth. So a couple of follow ups on texts
that came in earlier I was asked earlier we referred
to the FCC chief as crampis. Second text from Maureen says,
are you referring to Brendan Carr or Joe Biden's FCC chief,
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Brendan Carr, who seems to think that the government has
given me permission to do this and they can take
it away. And Brendan Carr, unfortunately, is playing the role
of everything that is wrong with the American government right now,
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and it's what led to all the shutdowns during COVID.
It is the license mentality. It is the license tyranny,
the tyranny of the licensure. You need a license for you? Yeah,
you've got a storefront here you DELI Okay, do you
have a license for that there? Mister Smith? What do
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I need a license for? Well, you know, the radio
station needs a license to go on the air. We
can tell it what it can say and what it
can't say. We want to tell you what kind of
sandwiches you can make and what kind you can't, and
who you serve and who you don't serve. Why wouldn't
that be good business for me? Well, we just don't
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trust you to do it good business style. So we're
gonna regulate you, and unfortunately he works for you. And
he could easily brending Carr's attitude towards the Federal Communications Commission,
could easily fool you that he was a Biden holdover.
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And I hate to say it about somebody in the
Trump administration, but this guy is, perhaps, given his position,
the most dangerous man in the Trump administration. And he's
doing it for the laudable reasons of wanting to go
after people who have spent all their time and energy
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going after and trying to hurt Donald Trump's political career
and everything else. That's not the job of the FCC.
Number one, number two. They're failing. Let them fail, don't
turn them into an attacked marginalized class. Don't let these
don't let these leftists rebrand themselves as marginalized communities. Let
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them fail on their own accord. That's the other part
of why I called him Crampis, And Crampis is just
the Christmas bad guy. I said, if Donald Trump is
Santa Claus, then Brendan Carus crampis. But anyway, thank you
for the check up on my neck.
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Up.
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There are first things this morning we were talking about
and Bob going on with us, but the attacks in Nigeria,
President Trump said were decisive and a warning that further
attacks would follow if violence against Christians would continue. The
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United States launched a powerful, deadly strike against ISIS terrorists
scum in northwest Nigeria. He wrote to truth Social They've
been targeting and viciously killing primarily innocent Christians at levels
not seen for many years, even centuries. President Vladimir Zelenski
of Ukraine said Thursday he spent Christmas Day with Steve
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Witkoff and Jared Kushner discussing substantive details of the ongoing
work on a potential peace deal with Russia. Meanwhile, Russian
forces appear close to being pushed out of the northeastern
Ukrainian city of Kripyanks, with just less than a dozen
pro Kremlin soldiers still there, many of them mercenaries. The
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storm system that brought heavy rains to southern California may
have moved on, but the soaked land are still teetering
on mudslides, which are often a theme in the end
of the year. In Southern California's Lake Tahoe, flooding in
that area, residents were told to be ready to evacuate
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the town of right Wood, about eighty miles northeast of
Los Angeles, because of threatened mudslide. The US economy grew
at four point three percent annual pace in the third quarter,
mark to get the strongest growth in two years. According
to new government data release, the nation's output of goods
and services between July and September outstripped the forecast of
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three percent growth. According to economists, the latest figure released
by the Commerce Department reflects a healthy jump from the
second quarter's growth of three point eight percent. Ten Democratic senders,
many of them from the listening areas of this program,
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like Tim Kaine of Virginia, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, and
Jeff Merkley of Oregon, pend a letter to the President
complaining that he's recalled thirty diplomats from their ambassadorial posts,
saying they've put the United States in great threat to
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Catching up with the host of the Good for America podcast,
former Chair of the House Freedom Concuss and Congressman Bob Good.
Bob I wanted to ask you background in finance and
working on Wall Street before entering academia at Liberty University
and then obviously onto Congress. The GDP numbers, Bob stunningstof
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four was at four point three percent higher than the
economists predicted. Does this deal a problem for the Democrats
who are all in now having watched span Berger and
I'm forgetting the new Jersey governor elect's name, Mikey Cheryl
(14:18):
Cheryl right on, who ran on you know, it's the
economy stupid. They ran on things cost more, and it's
sure it may be our fault, but things cost more
and they ran on it. But if the economy is
turning around like this, it could be a problem for
them in the midterms, couldn't it.
Speaker 17 (14:37):
Bob Hopefully so, I think that Trump's policies that worked
well in his first one are going to show even
more impact in twenty twenty six. His policies of cutting
regulations massively, of reducing taxes or at least keeping tax
cuts in place and implementing some new tax cuts. His
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insistence on fair t rate so that we can have
free trade, His emphasis on affordable, reliable energy and getting
that going in which impacts so much of the economy.
It's going to have a strong impact, I believe, and
it's already started to have some impact. Where he does
need to make a difference. That's a worse issue from
his first term because of the debt having almost double
since the start of his first term. Is the spending
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and the debt and we are spending more than we
were a year ago. That has got to be changed
because of the fact that it's caused that's combating his
efforts on the inflation side and the interest rates for
the bondholders and the investors of the debt. If they
don't see us being serious about addressing the debt, then
it's going to hold back some of the economic economic
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impact for the American people. So he's got to pursue
less spending and reduction in spending and force Congress to
do so.
Speaker 18 (15:49):
And he has not led in that area yet.
Speaker 19 (15:51):
I hope that he will in.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Twenty six Dominion Bob. Last question for you, Dominion Energy.
Virginia's largest energy company, Utility, is suing the Trump administration
because he's stopped the money flowing to these heavily subsidized
wind farms off the Atlantic coast in a bunch of
different states and in Virginia, Dominion says it could cost
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Virginia eight payers millions and millions of dollars with these delays.
And I'm reading the suit saying, well, that's presuming you
keep building the things. How about you stop building the
things because they were a bad idea in the first place,
and move on to something else. And isn't this a
great example of what happens when the government tries to
get in where a business decision should have been made,
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Because Dominion never would have done this fools errand out
in the Atlantic Ocean, if Ralph Northam, the previous governor,
hadn't forced them to.
Speaker 17 (16:45):
Yes, no question about. Tell me what the government has subsidized,
government has gotten involved with which has made things better.
It certainly hasn't on energy. And we ought to stop
throwing good money after bad a wasting money on these
wind and so these un affordable and reliable energy projects
which will never be the answer. And one of the
big things we need to do is not allow the
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utility providers the energy to pass on to rate payers
the higher cost of wind and solar renewable energy, even
if the incentives are no longer in place. If they
can pass on the cost of producing this less efficient,
less affordable, less reliable energy under the rate payers. They
can do that under government pressure and make us have
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to pay for it, and they're going to continue to
do it even without the government incentives. So President Trump
is right to cut it off, and they'll continue to
pursue that.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, you know, and as you point it out, I mean,
if we continue to do this, of course, the electric
utilities can just blame the data centers because that seems
to be the villain everyone wants to bring out there. Bob, So,
what's coming up this week on the Good for America podcasts?
Are you looking forward into twenty twenty six? And he
knews about twenty twenty six, he says at the microphone.
Speaker 19 (18:02):
Yeah, we will do a special New Year's podcast next
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things that I would like to see for the new year,
and just kind of reflect on our practices in terms
of setting goals and priorities for the new year and
each of our lives.
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Well, I appreciate it, sir. Good for America dot Org
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Also multitasking through text messaging. There this one, we were
talking about american Ism and what is american Ism and
nationalism based on the Bill of Rights. I don't have
a problem with nash as it if it's a nation
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built on the Bill of Rights. But I'm going to
bring that other list of ten things, and there's a
forgotten kind of like in the way I look at
the Third Amendment of the US Constitution as a forgotten one,
a misunderstood one. The ten commandments there there are the
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obvious ones. Thou shalt not bare fal sweatness against your neighbor,
shall not covet Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
commit adultery, Thou shalt not murder, Honor your father and mother,
keep the Sabbath day holy. This is where you start
to get the progressives like two people what to do everything?
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All right? So this is where if you get into
a progressive conversation about the Ten Commandments, They start right
off with it, you shall have no other God before me.
Well that's a little pushy. What about the Jewish God? Less,
I'm a check the same god. Remember one thing about
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Christianity Islam. And only you know these are At the
time in the Middle East, these were the only monotheistic
religions on the planet, certainly in that portion of the planet.
Everyone else said, Oh, this is the god of fertility,
and this is the god of sleep, and this is
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the god of radio. And that would be Joe, by
the way, the god of radio. That would make myself laugh.
The second one, though, the images, the false idols, And
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that's the You shall not make for yourself a carved
image any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or that is
in the water under the earth. You shall not bow
down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord
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your God, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to
thousands to those who love me, and keep me my
commandments harsh stuff and misunderstood and it has to do
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with nationalism. I'll explain why in a second. We got
news coming up here.
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Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
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Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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And now a speech.
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I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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Who's with me?
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Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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call me a ride.
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Love that guy, me too.
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Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
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One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
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(26:44):
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
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there are day to day things you can do. Lower
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(27:07):
close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
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Let me ask you all this question.
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We're supposed to leave at Bertie Sanders and Alec Alexandria
A conscio QUOTEXT on.
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Your to do list. Putting the radio on is the
first thing today?
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Amen to that? Four three, four eight eight two four
two one seven. There's a frightening thought turning the keys over.
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Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So we left off for the news, and there's a
lot of other stuff, a lot of other ground we
need to cover.
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Afore the clock wears us thin cruel mistress, cold hoted
old that rules the knot, robs of moanings from our flight.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I don't know that. So got fanciful with it. Found
finally found that poem. Uh, and it seemed applicable this morning.
But we were talking about four also idols and nationalism,
and unfortunately what winds up happening with nationalism is that
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it becomes that craven image that the Ten Commandments warns about,
that we wind up worshiping instead of what God has
put upon us. You follow me at all on that.
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I may be as crazy as a bag of hair,
And I, unlike many, I have actually seen a bag
of hair. I have a bag of hair somewhere at
my house, so I can attest to how a bag
of hair is. But when we when we fall prey
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to nationalism, and like I said, just conceptually, the idea
of a nation built on the Bill of Rights in
the US Constitution, I'm all for that nation. I'm a
nationalist for that. But what we've done, and this feeds
into something else that I sense all the time that
happens to us, is we fall in love with the
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trappings of those things. I've taught to theologians, theologians men
with colors who have made the case that our treatment
of the church violates that second second commandment. That we've
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become so so interested in cellar in the church. It's
not about what the church is a building dedicated to do.
And and the priest that was telling me this, minister,
I'm sorry, my wife always corrects me. It's different faiths.
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But had just come back from Cuba. He came from
Cuba where he was visiting these illegal, although ignored Christian
get togethers, people's backyards and no churches. It's Cuba, but
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a barroom in a hotel, a backyard in some rural town.
These are becoming the churches. These are becoming the altars
of the Christian faith that is blossoming under what remains
of Castro's communism. It's the same thing that Lee's school
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and used to do. Lee School and a great Chinese
liberty Chinese freedom activists who would go to China under
the auspices of doing catering events. I guess they want
to send out for American all right, So it was stop, Yes,
it was an easy shot. But I so Lee would,
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you know, get this catering gig in China and she
would fly there from the United States. And then while
she was there, she drop off all these Bibles for
people to take home with them. So we as people
fall prey to the idolatry of the thing that we see.
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A fun example, you know, I like to play when
Captain Kirk reads the premble to the Constitution. The whole
episode is built around a society that views the Constitution
like a holy document that only chiefs can see. That's
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the danger in nationalism, is that nationalism leads to that
idolatry of thing. It's how Caesar and the following emperors
of Rome they kept the trappings, they kept the well
to torture the Grinch analogy just a little bit further.
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They kept they made sure everyone had the honkers and
snazzers and who hash and the toe tinglers and whatever
else it was that the Grinch stole. They made damn
sure nobody stole them. That every year the appropriate time,
they all got put up in the town square. So
you knew we were celebrating the thing. And that's the thing.
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We're celebrating the thing, not the stuff that made the thing.
And in America we fall in prey to that too,
we celebrate the thing, not the stuff that makes the thing.
We have pro business politicians who are anything but capitalists,
and then we have young people who say capitalism sucks.
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How would you even know, No way you could know.
There's nothing capitalist about this society right now, aside from
the idolatry of it, aside from the craven images. And
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it's a hard heart, oh it is brutal. But you know,
one day we were talking about how We talk about
some of these things as if they are are precious.
Main Street, the downtown shopping district, the entertainment, the theater section, whatever,
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Little Italy, Chinatown. None of these things are America. They
all wind up getting woven into America. America is a
free country based on your opportunity to follow whatever it
is you want, provided you don't harm anyone else's opportunity
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to do what they want. And all the machinations of government,
from property taxes to property assessments, to licensed sure for business,
all of it eats away at that, and we shrug
and we accept it. I've read to you the Declaration
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of Independence, passage in the you know, several lines after
we hold these truths, et cetera, et cetera, Jefferson Wrights,
almost noting, almost predicting where we were headed. Prudence indeed
will dictate that governments long established should not be changed
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for light and transient causes. And accordingly, all experience has
shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils
are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But when a long train
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of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object. Evinces
a design to reduce them under absolute despotism. It is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
government and to provide new guards for their future security.
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That he was afraid, even the American government we would
fall prey to the same thing that everyone else had
fallen prey to. Is the worship of the symbol. One
of the premises they used to pass the ultra racist
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size of the House of Representatives was that we didn't
want to add more wings onto the US Capitol Building.
Why it's the Capitol Building is no, it's a building.
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It is a building. It's a building where special stuff
is supposed to happen, But it is a building. We
can meet in any building. If it's the meetings of
our congress people, it's Congress.
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Iraq?
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That's the only way.
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So you want to get back to America, We're not
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I know you.
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Not to full stuff too.
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Standing.
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We got to get signed before.
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They kills the.
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Let's boy three four eight eight two four two one seven.
That is sometimes you feel that way, don't you?
Speaker 5 (45:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
And you're the battles wage on battles all over the place.
And I brought the text message came in earlier this
morning asking about story we had yesterday morning.
Speaker 23 (45:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Vladimir Zelensky just before Christmas suggested that he would be
open to the idea if both if if Russia would
abandon the Dawn Boss and that whole region crime in
all that, and then his troops would leave and then
there would be this demilitarized free economy zone there. And
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I was asked, kind of, how would that work, who
would pay for it? Who would be the police there?
And of course the obvious answer is us would do it,
of course. And then you know, showing the master negotiator
Zelenski is he took to his Christmas message to say
that he hopes Vladimir Putin perishes. So, uh, you know,
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piece piece in our time. I don't know Bob's hit Moscow. First,
I want to ask you, Bob, how is everything going
with the bombing and the killing of those police officers?
What's happening with that? I mean, the press has sort
of dropped the story. It was a big story yesterday
and then the press was like, oh, look a shiny object,
(46:24):
let's go look at that. Uh, and they, you know,
no follow up on it or anything. What's happened anything
in Moscow? Police about it?
Speaker 27 (46:32):
Or I haven't heard I haven't heard anything about it. Okay, wow,
so something about nothing or if it is, they're still investigating,
and when we know more what's going on? Well, No,
it's like when the when the bombing was at Crocus,
that was all over news. That was major terrorism, and
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that was new. This I haven't heard much of anything
because I'm assuming it's a non event. It sort of
probably like a shooting of police officers in America.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Okay, they said it was a pipe bomb, and the
first official said he blamed Ukraine for it. So I
thought it might be a big deal, and that's why
I was surprised to not see it.
Speaker 27 (47:13):
But who knows, pipe I'm killing two police officers like
an ambush killing, you know, two National guardsman like kid,
you know that story disappeared in America, the two National
guardsmens that were killed in Washington.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
We're trying to not let it, but yeah, I see
what you're getting at. So anyway, what do you see
to the phone this morning? Good to hear from me.
I hope you had a good Christmas, although I guess
in Russia, Russian Orthodox Christmas is coming up.
Speaker 27 (47:42):
Yep, it's coming up. But my Christmas it was wonderful.
God answered my prayers. We had a snowstorm yesterday, had
a white Christmas.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 27 (47:54):
So I looked, the kids are out, the kids are
out with their parents and the little football and basketball courts.
They're building a gigantic s nomad.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Nice. All right, Well there you go, say, there's there's
there's the symbols of Christmas are everywhere, and so what's up.
Speaker 27 (48:13):
Yeah, let's gets a puppet of the United States. He's
saying exactly what the United States wants them to. There's
no way Russia is going to give up those regions
or have a demilitarized zone when it's going to be
run by natal That's what started this whole crap in
the beginning was the United States in turning overturning the
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Ukraine War and NATO encouraging into Ukraine. And that's what
this whole war was about. RuSHA will never let that happen.
Now here's my question. Let's say they go with it,
and let's say it's not gonna be the United States
or NATO watching it. China in turn, you're going to
take control of the region. What would the United States?
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What would the United States say?
Speaker 7 (48:57):
Then?
Speaker 27 (48:57):
Would they go for it?
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Yeah? Throw Iran into that governing cabal? Yeah, I agree,
it's that's that's the devil in the details of this.
It sounds like a nice idea.
Speaker 27 (49:11):
No, it's not a nice idea. So lit he just
talking out is behind because he knows it will never happen,
and he's trying to make himself look good, especially with
the comedy made about a hope. Putin. Guys, well, if
you come right down to it, who's responsible for this
war to begin with? It's not Russia, It's not Ukraine.
It's the United States is the one that started this
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with the overthrow via the CIA covertly in Ukraine, overthrowing
the government. Well, overthrow, there's consequences.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Well, but all right, so we're here in the now.
That wasn't Donald Trump doing that? So Donald Trump and
Wikoff and Kushner and these folks are trying to get
an end to this, what you know, aside from giving
Russia everything at once, which and I think I may
be the old person who will accept and present Russia's
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argument is, in a nutshell, we were fooled. Yeltsin was
an idiot. We should never have agreed to let Ukraine go.
We don't recognize their sovereignty. And I know that's it's
a crass depiction of it, but basically that's been Putin's stand,
is that I don't recognize Ukraine's government because I don't
think Ukraine should have been independent of Russia in the
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first place. Okay, but we're here now. Can we get
back to a process where we discuss these things like
mensches at least.
Speaker 27 (50:36):
Well, the process is going to be the only thing
that's ever going to be possible is Russia gets what
they want. Period. Also, no one's mentioned about Poland. Poland
wants their territory that Ukraine took from them back. They
want their territory, and I think it's Luhansk where leave
is that's actually part of territory. They want that back
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at the end of the war too.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
And how did that one was that part of what
Russia had kind of invaded after World War two.
Speaker 27 (51:11):
I don't know if it's after World War two or
if it's what because Ukraine or whatever the case was,
But somehow that part that used to be Polish territory
became maybe it was from World War two. It became
part of Russia. The Russia, you know, the Soviet Union
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became was incorporated as part of Ukraine. So when Ukraine
was a state of the Russian government, that's basically what happened.
And now that all this is going on, Poland is
also watching their territory back. So whatever deal happened, they're
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going to see Poland getting their territory back too. So
they're gonna not only they're gonna lose part of their territories,
which he's going to give up up, the Leave area,
the Luhansk area back to its frightful owner based on history.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
All right, well you know, and that's something I didn't
know about that part of it. Good to hear from
me and my friend. I'm glad it's a white Christmas
there in Moscow.
Speaker 27 (52:14):
Help yep, I hope you had a merry Christmas, and
I hope you had wonderful weather too.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, it was seventy degrees almost here, so after being
seven two weeks ago. So anyway, keep your hands and
arms inside the ride until it comes to a complete stop.
Have a great morning, sir, yep you, sir, bye, Thank
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You have a day at least for work.
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He on the eggs, Joe, thank you for letting us
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know you've been busy or sleeping, and while you get
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But we also want to hear what it's doing to
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to be rewritten. That didn't sound right coming out of
my mouth. So a couple of follow ups on texts
that came in earlier I was asked earlier we referred
to the FCC chief as crampis. Second text from Maureen says,
are you referring to Brendan Carr or Joe Biden's FCC chief,
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Brendan Carr, who seems to think that the government has
given me permission to do this and they can take
it away. And Brendan Carr, unfortunately, is playing the role
of everything that is wrong with the American government right now,
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and it's what led to all the shutdowns during COVID.
It is the license mentality. It is the license tyranny,
the tyranny of the licensure. You need a license for you? Yeah,
you've got a storefront here you DELI Okay, do you
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I need a license for? Well, you know, the radio
station needs a license to go on the air. We
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sandwiches you can make and what kind you can't, and
who you serve and who you don't serve. Why wouldn't
that be good business for me? Well, we just don't
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trust you to do it good business style. So we're
gonna regulate you, and unfortunately he works for you. And
he could easily brending Carr's attitude towards the Federal Communications Commission,
could easily fool you that he was a Biden holdover.
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And I hate to say it about somebody in the
Trump administration, but this guy is, perhaps, given his position,
the most dangerous man in the Trump administration. And he's
doing it for the laudable reasons of wanting to go
after people who have spent all their time and energy
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going after and trying to hurt Donald Trump's political career
and everything else. That's not the job of the FCC.
Number one, number two. They're failing. Let them fail, don't
turn them into an attacked marginalized class. Don't let these
don't let these leftists rebrand themselves as marginalized communities. Let
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them fail on their own accord. That's the other part
of why I called him Crampis, And Crampis is just
the Christmas bad guy. I said, if Donald Trump is
Santa Claus, then Brendan Carus crampis. But anyway, thank you
for the check up on my neck.
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President Trump said were decisive and a warning that further
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of Ukraine said Thursday he spent Christmas Day with Steve
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work on a potential peace deal with Russia. Meanwhile, Russian
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Catching up with the host of the Good for America podcast,
former Chair of the House Freedom Concuss and Congressman Bob Good.
Bob I wanted to ask you background in finance and
working on Wall Street before entering academia at Liberty University
and then obviously onto Congress. The GDP numbers, Bob stunningstof
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four was at four point three percent higher than the
economists predicted. Does this deal a problem for the Democrats
who are all in now having watched span Berger and
I'm forgetting the new Jersey governor elect's name, Mikey Cheryl
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Cheryl right on, who ran on you know, it's the
economy stupid. They ran on things cost more, and it's
sure it may be our fault, but things cost more
and they ran on it. But if the economy is
turning around like this, it could be a problem for
them in the midterms, couldn't it.
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Bob Hopefully so, I think that Trump's policies that worked
well in his first one are going to show even
more impact in twenty twenty six. His policies of cutting
regulations massively, of reducing taxes or at least keeping tax
cuts in place and implementing some new tax cuts. His
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insistence on fair t rate so that we can have
free trade, His emphasis on affordable, reliable energy and getting
that going in which impacts so much of the economy.
It's going to have a strong impact, I believe, and
it's already started to have some impact. Where he does
need to make a difference. That's a worse issue from
his first term because of the debt having almost double
since the start of his first term. Is the spending
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and the debt and we are spending more than we
were a year ago. That has got to be changed
because of the fact that it's caused that's combating his
efforts on the inflation side and the interest rates for
the bondholders and the investors of the debt. If they
don't see us being serious about addressing the debt, then
it's going to hold back some of the economic economic
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impact for the American people. So he's got to pursue
less spending and reduction in spending and force Congress to
do so.
Speaker 18 (15:49):
And he has not led in that area yet.
Speaker 19 (15:51):
I hope that he will in.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Twenty six Dominion Bob. Last question for you, Dominion Energy.
Virginia's largest energy company, Utility, is suing the Trump administration
because he's stopped the money flowing to these heavily subsidized
wind farms off the Atlantic coast in a bunch of
different states and in Virginia, Dominion says it could cost
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Virginia eight payers millions and millions of dollars with these delays.
And I'm reading the suit saying, well, that's presuming you
keep building the things. How about you stop building the
things because they were a bad idea in the first place,
and move on to something else. And isn't this a
great example of what happens when the government tries to
get in where a business decision should have been made,
(16:35):
Because Dominion never would have done this fools errand out
in the Atlantic Ocean, if Ralph Northam, the previous governor,
hadn't forced them to.
Speaker 17 (16:45):
Yes, no question about. Tell me what the government has subsidized,
government has gotten involved with which has made things better.
It certainly hasn't on energy. And we ought to stop
throwing good money after bad a wasting money on these
wind and so these un affordable and reliable energy projects
which will never be the answer. And one of the
big things we need to do is not allow the
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utility providers the energy to pass on to rate payers
the higher cost of wind and solar renewable energy, even
if the incentives are no longer in place. If they
can pass on the cost of producing this less efficient,
less affordable, less reliable energy under the rate payers. They
can do that under government pressure and make us have
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to pay for it, and they're going to continue to
do it even without the government incentives. So President Trump
is right to cut it off, and they'll continue to
pursue that.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, you know, and as you point it out, I mean,
if we continue to do this, of course, the electric
utilities can just blame the data centers because that seems
to be the villain everyone wants to bring out there. Bob, So,
what's coming up this week on the Good for America podcasts?
Are you looking forward into twenty twenty six? And he
knews about twenty twenty six, he says at the microphone.
Speaker 19 (18:02):
Yeah, we will do a special New Year's podcast next
week where we will talk about the new year, the
things that I would like to see for the new year,
and just kind of reflect on our practices in terms
of setting goals and priorities for the new year and
each of our lives.
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Also multitasking through text messaging. There this one, we were
talking about american Ism and what is american Ism and
nationalism based on the Bill of Rights. I don't have
a problem with nash as it if it's a nation
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built on the Bill of Rights. But I'm going to
bring that other list of ten things, and there's a
forgotten kind of like in the way I look at
the Third Amendment of the US Constitution as a forgotten one,
a misunderstood one. The ten commandments there there are the
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obvious ones. Thou shalt not bare fal sweatness against your neighbor,
shall not covet Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
commit adultery, Thou shalt not murder, Honor your father and mother,
keep the Sabbath day holy. This is where you start
to get the progressives like two people what to do everything?
(20:00):
All right? So this is where if you get into
a progressive conversation about the Ten Commandments, They start right
off with it, you shall have no other God before me.
Well that's a little pushy. What about the Jewish God? Less,
I'm a check the same god. Remember one thing about
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Christianity Islam. And only you know these are At the
time in the Middle East, these were the only monotheistic
religions on the planet, certainly in that portion of the planet.
Everyone else said, Oh, this is the god of fertility,
and this is the god of sleep, and this is
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the god of radio. And that would be Joe, by
the way, the god of radio. That would make myself laugh.
The second one, though, the images, the false idols, And
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that's the You shall not make for yourself a carved
image any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or that is
in the water under the earth. You shall not bow
down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord
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your God, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to
thousands to those who love me, and keep me my
commandments harsh stuff and misunderstood and it has to do
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with nationalism. I'll explain why in a second. We got
news coming up here.
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Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
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I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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Love that guy, me too.
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So we left off for the news, and there's a
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Speaker 1 (28:49):
I don't know that. So got fanciful with it. Found
finally found that poem. Uh, and it seemed applicable this morning.
But we were talking about four also idols and nationalism,
and unfortunately what winds up happening with nationalism is that
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it becomes that craven image that the Ten Commandments warns about,
that we wind up worshiping instead of what God has
put upon us. You follow me at all on that.
(29:45):
I may be as crazy as a bag of hair,
And I, unlike many, I have actually seen a bag
of hair. I have a bag of hair somewhere at
my house, so I can attest to how a bag
of hair is. But when we when we fall prey
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to nationalism, and like I said, just conceptually, the idea
of a nation built on the Bill of Rights in
the US Constitution, I'm all for that nation. I'm a
nationalist for that. But what we've done, and this feeds
into something else that I sense all the time that
happens to us, is we fall in love with the
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trappings of those things. I've taught to theologians, theologians men
with colors who have made the case that our treatment
of the church violates that second second commandment. That we've
(31:01):
become so so interested in cellar in the church. It's
not about what the church is a building dedicated to do.
And and the priest that was telling me this, minister,
I'm sorry, my wife always corrects me. It's different faiths.
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But had just come back from Cuba. He came from
Cuba where he was visiting these illegal, although ignored Christian
get togethers, people's backyards and no churches. It's Cuba, but
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a barroom in a hotel, a backyard in some rural town.
These are becoming the churches. These are becoming the altars
of the Christian faith that is blossoming under what remains
of Castro's communism. It's the same thing that Lee's school
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and used to do. Lee School and a great Chinese
liberty Chinese freedom activists who would go to China under
the auspices of doing catering events. I guess they want
to send out for American all right, So it was stop, Yes,
it was an easy shot. But I so Lee would,
(32:29):
you know, get this catering gig in China and she
would fly there from the United States. And then while
she was there, she drop off all these Bibles for
people to take home with them. So we as people
fall prey to the idolatry of the thing that we see.
(32:54):
A fun example, you know, I like to play when
Captain Kirk reads the premble to the Constitution. The whole
episode is built around a society that views the Constitution
like a holy document that only chiefs can see. That's
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the danger in nationalism, is that nationalism leads to that
idolatry of thing. It's how Caesar and the following emperors
of Rome they kept the trappings, they kept the well
to torture the Grinch analogy just a little bit further.
(33:39):
They kept they made sure everyone had the honkers and
snazzers and who hash and the toe tinglers and whatever
else it was that the Grinch stole. They made damn
sure nobody stole them. That every year the appropriate time,
they all got put up in the town square. So
you knew we were celebrating the thing. And that's the thing.
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We're celebrating the thing, not the stuff that made the thing.
And in America we fall in prey to that too,
we celebrate the thing, not the stuff that makes the thing.
We have pro business politicians who are anything but capitalists,
and then we have young people who say capitalism sucks.
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How would you even know, No way you could know.
There's nothing capitalist about this society right now, aside from
the idolatry of it, aside from the craven images. And
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it's a hard heart, oh it is brutal. But you know,
one day we were talking about how We talk about
some of these things as if they are are precious.
Main Street, the downtown shopping district, the entertainment, the theater section, whatever,
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Little Italy, Chinatown. None of these things are America. They
all wind up getting woven into America. America is a
free country based on your opportunity to follow whatever it
is you want, provided you don't harm anyone else's opportunity
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to do what they want. And all the machinations of government,
from property taxes to property assessments, to licensed sure for business,
all of it eats away at that, and we shrug
and we accept it. I've read to you the Declaration
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of Independence, passage in the you know, several lines after
we hold these truths, et cetera, et cetera, Jefferson Wrights,
almost noting, almost predicting where we were headed. Prudence indeed
will dictate that governments long established should not be changed
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for light and transient causes. And accordingly, all experience has
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to which they are accustomed. But when a long train
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of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object. Evinces
a design to reduce them under absolute despotism. It is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
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That he was afraid, even the American government we would
fall prey to the same thing that everyone else had
fallen prey to. Is the worship of the symbol. One
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Yeah, math America to gain a war with someone with
the guns back Iraq. Who would guys defend American war?
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Iraq?
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Will asked, want brothers amaze your friends here in first
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Speaker 4 (44:23):
That's the only way.
Speaker 26 (44:24):
So you want to get back to America, We're not
in America.
Speaker 7 (44:30):
I know you.
Speaker 19 (44:33):
Not to full stuff too.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Standing.
Speaker 27 (44:44):
We got to get signed before.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
They kills the.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Let's boy three four eight eight two four two one seven.
That is sometimes you feel that way, don't you?
Speaker 5 (45:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
And you're the battles wage on battles all over the place.
And I brought the text message came in earlier this
morning asking about story we had yesterday morning.
Speaker 23 (45:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Vladimir Zelensky just before Christmas suggested that he would be
open to the idea if both if if Russia would
abandon the Dawn Boss and that whole region crime in
all that, and then his troops would leave and then
there would be this demilitarized free economy zone there. And
(45:41):
I was asked, kind of, how would that work, who
would pay for it? Who would be the police there?
And of course the obvious answer is us would do it,
of course. And then you know, showing the master negotiator
Zelenski is he took to his Christmas message to say
that he hopes Vladimir Putin perishes. So, uh, you know,
(46:02):
piece piece in our time. I don't know Bob's hit Moscow. First,
I want to ask you, Bob, how is everything going
with the bombing and the killing of those police officers?
What's happening with that? I mean, the press has sort
of dropped the story. It was a big story yesterday
and then the press was like, oh, look a shiny object,
(46:24):
let's go look at that. Uh, and they, you know,
no follow up on it or anything. What's happened anything
in Moscow? Police about it?
Speaker 27 (46:32):
Or I haven't heard I haven't heard anything about it. Okay, wow,
so something about nothing or if it is, they're still investigating,
and when we know more what's going on? Well, No,
it's like when the when the bombing was at Crocus,
that was all over news. That was major terrorism, and
(46:52):
that was new. This I haven't heard much of anything
because I'm assuming it's a non event. It sort of
probably like a shooting of police officers in America.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Okay, they said it was a pipe bomb, and the
first official said he blamed Ukraine for it. So I
thought it might be a big deal, and that's why
I was surprised to not see it.
Speaker 27 (47:13):
But who knows, pipe I'm killing two police officers like
an ambush killing, you know, two National guardsman like kid,
you know that story disappeared in America, the two National
guardsmens that were killed in Washington.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
We're trying to not let it, but yeah, I see
what you're getting at. So anyway, what do you see
to the phone this morning? Good to hear from me.
I hope you had a good Christmas, although I guess
in Russia, Russian Orthodox Christmas is coming up.
Speaker 27 (47:42):
Yep, it's coming up. But my Christmas it was wonderful.
God answered my prayers. We had a snowstorm yesterday, had
a white Christmas.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 27 (47:54):
So I looked, the kids are out, the kids are
out with their parents and the little football and basketball courts.
They're building a gigantic s nomad.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Nice. All right, Well there you go, say, there's there's
there's the symbols of Christmas are everywhere, and so what's up.
Speaker 27 (48:13):
Yeah, let's gets a puppet of the United States. He's
saying exactly what the United States wants them to. There's
no way Russia is going to give up those regions
or have a demilitarized zone when it's going to be
run by natal That's what started this whole crap in
the beginning was the United States in turning overturning the
(48:33):
Ukraine War and NATO encouraging into Ukraine. And that's what
this whole war was about. RuSHA will never let that happen.
Now here's my question. Let's say they go with it,
and let's say it's not gonna be the United States
or NATO watching it. China in turn, you're going to
take control of the region. What would the United States?
(48:55):
What would the United States say?
Speaker 7 (48:57):
Then?
Speaker 27 (48:57):
Would they go for it?
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Yeah? Throw Iran into that governing cabal? Yeah, I agree,
it's that's that's the devil in the details of this.
It sounds like a nice idea.
Speaker 27 (49:11):
No, it's not a nice idea. So lit he just
talking out is behind because he knows it will never happen,
and he's trying to make himself look good, especially with
the comedy made about a hope. Putin. Guys, well, if
you come right down to it, who's responsible for this
war to begin with? It's not Russia, It's not Ukraine.
It's the United States is the one that started this
(49:32):
with the overthrow via the CIA covertly in Ukraine, overthrowing
the government. Well, overthrow, there's consequences.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Well, but all right, so we're here in the now.
That wasn't Donald Trump doing that? So Donald Trump and
Wikoff and Kushner and these folks are trying to get
an end to this, what you know, aside from giving
Russia everything at once, which and I think I may
be the old person who will accept and present Russia's
(50:03):
argument is, in a nutshell, we were fooled. Yeltsin was
an idiot. We should never have agreed to let Ukraine go.
We don't recognize their sovereignty. And I know that's it's
a crass depiction of it, but basically that's been Putin's stand,
is that I don't recognize Ukraine's government because I don't
think Ukraine should have been independent of Russia in the
(50:26):
first place. Okay, but we're here now. Can we get
back to a process where we discuss these things like
mensches at least.
Speaker 27 (50:36):
Well, the process is going to be the only thing
that's ever going to be possible is Russia gets what
they want. Period. Also, no one's mentioned about Poland. Poland
wants their territory that Ukraine took from them back. They
want their territory, and I think it's Luhansk where leave
is that's actually part of territory. They want that back
(51:01):
at the end of the war too.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
And how did that one was that part of what
Russia had kind of invaded after World War two.
Speaker 27 (51:11):
I don't know if it's after World War two or
if it's what because Ukraine or whatever the case was,
But somehow that part that used to be Polish territory
became maybe it was from World War two. It became
part of Russia. The Russia, you know, the Soviet Union
(51:31):
became was incorporated as part of Ukraine. So when Ukraine
was a state of the Russian government, that's basically what happened.
And now that all this is going on, Poland is
also watching their territory back. So whatever deal happened, they're
(51:52):
going to see Poland getting their territory back too. So
they're gonna not only they're gonna lose part of their territories,
which he's going to give up up, the Leave area,
the Luhansk area back to its frightful owner based on history.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
All right, well you know, and that's something I didn't
know about that part of it. Good to hear from
me and my friend. I'm glad it's a white Christmas
there in Moscow.
Speaker 27 (52:14):
Help yep, I hope you had a merry Christmas, and
I hope you had wonderful weather too.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, it was seventy degrees almost here, so after being
seven two weeks ago. So anyway, keep your hands and
arms inside the ride until it comes to a complete stop.
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