August 19, 2025 • 37 mins
Ep. 297 - Best Of Compilation
Join David Pridham and Brad Sheafe for a rollicking "Best Of" compilation featuring their sharpest takes from recent months. Watch as they dissect why a government shutdown might actually be a blessing in disguise (spoiler: most of us wouldn't even notice), dive into the Wall Street Journal's belated admission that Biden's cognitive decline was obvious from day one, and explore the mysterious case of California squirrels who've suddenly developed a taste for meat.
The duo also unpacks the FBI's convenient admission about having 26 "confidential sources" stirring the pot on January 6th, breaks down a University of Michigan study claiming peanut butter sandwiches can offset cheeseburger damage to your lifespan, and celebrates Trump's early presidential wins—including persuading UPenn to erase Lia Thomas's swimming records and restore sanity to women's sports.
Join David Pridham and Brad Sheafe for a rollicking "Best Of" compilation featuring their sharpest takes from recent months. Watch as they dissect why a government shutdown might actually be a blessing in disguise (spoiler: most of us wouldn't even notice), dive into the Wall Street Journal's belated admission that Biden's cognitive decline was obvious from day one, and explore the mysterious case of California squirrels who've suddenly developed a taste for meat.
The duo also unpacks the FBI's convenient admission about having 26 "confidential sources" stirring the pot on January 6th, breaks down a University of Michigan study claiming peanut butter sandwiches can offset cheeseburger damage to your lifespan, and celebrates Trump's early presidential wins—including persuading UPenn to erase Lia Thomas's swimming records and restore sanity to women's sports.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
In these bleak days, humanity is at a breaking point.
Economies are tanking, the woke mob is canceling everything, and
the little guy who's just trying to run a small
business is getting screwed from both ends. But not all
is lost. Amidst the chaos, two men offer up their
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voices in the darkness, dropping two thousand pounds laser guided
truth bombs on today's Lunacy, introducing the Sirens of Sanity.
David Pridham and l Bradley Sheaf.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I frequently dissecting move terminology.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
David, it brings the evidence.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
If Brad laughs, allle well, Brad here it is another
best of episode as you and I enjoined the dwindling
days of summer and.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Move towards the fall, and we'll be back full time
at IP.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Frequently going to be tough to top last week, but
we're going to do it right here and right now.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And what would it be without a government shutdown, which
it looks like we are.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
The big clock is.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Ticking and it looks like the government is going to
shut down, and that means everything screeches to a halt.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well, buddy, a couple of things right, So, first and
foremost somehow Congress has come to the errant determination that
this is like what they do like this should be
an embarrassment for any Congress. At a minimum, as the
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legislative branch, it is your job to keep the government open,
right Like, if you believe there should be a government,
then at a minimum that government should be functioning. Is
that that's the base, you know, very lowest bar you
can set for the legislative branches. Hey, listen, is the
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government open for business? I mean, set aside whether what
it's doing is important or meaningful, or it's doing it
well or poorly, just is it available to the people
of the United States. That would be about the lowest
bar you could set for any legislature. And it seems
like annually our legislature has you know, sort of flipped
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the script on us and is saying, no, we're going
to close the government, Like we see that as being
our job is to is to close the government. And frankly,
my response to that in almost every year again for
many years, I you know, I got my paycheck for
the government. But as you know, being in the military
and being in law enforcement, they no matter how hard
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they shut the government down, they tended to keep those
things running, so I you know, never lost a check
when they would do these government shutdowns. But my response was, good,
do it, Like, let's actually see what happens to the
American people if you just stop doing all the stupid
stuff that you're doing, which leads me to my second point,
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which is would anyone even notice if the government shut down?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Again, I get it if you're a government employee, don't
get a paycheck that has meaning, but as is being
constantly paraded before us these days, probably beneficially a lot
of government employees who you know, we probably don't need, right.
I'm not advocating for anyone to be put out on
the street, but be interesting to find out just exactly
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how much government we actually need and just exactly what
happens to the American people. My guess is that most
of us, the vast majority of us, if you shut
the government down secretly, didn't make a big deal out
of it. You just said, hey, we're not doing it.
We probably wouldn't notice, right. I Mean, the biggest interaction
we have with the federal government for most of us
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would be like the postal service, and if they shut
that down, you just shrug, and you walk to a
ups store and your stuff gets there quicker and easier anyway, right,
And so you know, I don't know that anyone would notice.
Perhaps it's the best way to go.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I mean, you notice when it's open, just because they
do like awful, awful things.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
But you know, I think it's.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I think it's interesting, right that you've got you're for
the last I mean, I don't know how many years
they just keep passing these little incremental continuing resolutions that
get you another couple of months or another four months,
or just pass this election just past the holidays so
they can all go home. They should make them stay
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there through the holidays until they figure it out, right,
I mean I think that's that's what Trump said, just
just figure it out right. Get the debt ceiling is stupid, right,
I mean, should there be a debt ceiling? Yeah, but
if it were a real ceiling. The problem with the
debt ceiling that keeps getting higher by congressional fiat is
that it's not a ceiling at all.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It's a retractable roof.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I see what you did there, that's clever.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yeah, I was just like that was a mic drop. Yeah.
So anyway. I mean, but that, but make them stay.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And while you're at it, Brad, attach shock collars to
every one of them, and when they lie, shock them
and shock them a little more. Just gradually increase the
current every time they lie, going you know, going forward
every time they And then also, Brad, another thing I
would say is let every team in Major League Baseball
have one at bat with an aluminum bat in a
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game period.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You've done this before, you can't, I know, this is
like what Congress does. See this, This is like a
continuing resolution where you're talking about one subject shut down
to the government, and then you sneak in this pork
barrel thing about baseball. See that's the problem. That's why
we can't get a budget passed, is because we always
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you know, these these various and sundry representatives are sneaking
in their pet projects, which for you is the you know,
the aluminum bat once in the game thing because you
don't like pictures, like you want to see a picture's
head get knocked clean off.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Oh lord, that's just done true.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So I mean, you're it's a little sketchy, but I
will say this, I think I just fine do it right,
Like you threaten, and you threaten, you're like, oh no, no,
we're gonna have no. I think the vast majority of
Americans today would not only not notice, but if you
ask them, if you said, listen, here's your choice. You
can have the government continue to do what it's been
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doing for the last you know, ten years, just nothing profitable,
not really legislating, investigating this, investigating that, throwing stones back
and forth between the parties, lunatics running around saying things
that only lunatics would say, doing things that only lunar
ticks would do, or we just throw the whole thing
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out and just kind of self governed for a while.
I'll tell you what, like, just get up and go
to work, right And if there's no government, then there's
really nothing to pay taxes for, so you know, we
won't be collecting taxes. And my guess is that that
won't happen, right Like, even though the government is not
providing services, they will still tax us for the period
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that they were shut down and doing nothing, So you know,
they'll cleverly figure that out. But my guess is that
most Americans would just go, Okay, let's give that a try.
Let's just do that let's just have state government, local government,
because you want to have cops and firefighters and you know,
et cetera, et cetera. We want that, we want you know,
schools running, et cetera. Maybe maybe maybe in many places
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people probably saying, now, you know what, you can shut
down the schools too. But point being, my guess is
most Americans, if the federal government truly threatened and said,
you know, we're not going to do the things we
normally do, most Americans would go okay, all right, let's
try it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But in any event, the Wall Street Journal came up
with an article citing a number of sources within the
Biden White House who said, and I quote, all the
warning signs that Biden was quote, senile from day one
were displayed for those in his inner circle, and they
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didn't say anything. And then it goes on to list
and this is a main Wall Street journal which never
would have published this four months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
They listed everything.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
March twenty twenty one, when he fell down the stairs
of Air Force one.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Remember he fell down the stairs a bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, And then they had to be that's all did.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Then they had the.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Shorter staircase from the shorter staircase, coming out that he's
got that now. June twenty one, he called the Royal
Air Force the RFA a number of times. November twenty one,
he fell asleep while listening to speakers at a police conference.
June twenty twenty two, he toppled over in his bike
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near his Delaware Beach home, once owned by the DuPont family.
October twenty twenty two, he multiple times mispronounced the name
of the British Prime Minister, the new One. May twenty three,
he stumbled down the steps at the JU seven meeting
when he fell in front of the jew seven leaders.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
June twenty three.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Remember that this year you were at brad This is
where he tripped and fell while handing out diplumbas at
the Air Force Academy. You were there for that, I was.
September twenty three. He repeats the story about a white
supremacist rally twice at the same event. September twenty three,
he walked off the stage and walked right into a flagpole.
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And when he was he was doing some joint press
conference with Brazil's president. Instead of shaking his hand at
the podium, he turned the other way. And walked right
into a flagpole. September twenty twenty three, he called the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus the Black Caucus. September twenty three, again
he claimed he had not he's been to every mass
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shooting while president, which was not true. March twenty four,
he told of train journeys over a collapse bridge in
Delaware or Pennsylvania which never had train tracks. June twenty four,
he had the debate with Trump twenty four. July twenty four,
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he called Putin, I know, he called President Zelenski President Putin.
He called in the same month, July twenty twenty four,
Kamala Harris, Vice President Trump. He forgot his Defense secretary's
name in an interview that same month, calling him that
black man.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
November twenty four, he fell on the beach, and at
that time he also wandered into a rainforest, the Amazon,
just wandered into it. And then Brad and Angola. Just
this month, he fell asleep at a live summit in Africa.
So the Wall Street Journal stitched all these together, interviewed
some insiders, and it seems that Brad, he and I
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didn't see this coming.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But apparently he's seen now.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
But I mean it was it was nice of you
to run through that list and just kind of remind
us all of the very obvious and public things that
this doddering old man has done while also being president
the United States. I mean, none of them are horrific, right,
I mean, these are the kinds of things that if
you said, hey, my, you know, eighty year old grandfather
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did this, you might chuckle a little bit and golly right,
but you know, no one would really care and no
one would be taken aback. It's what old folks do.
If you and I live long enough, it will be
the kind of thing that you and I will do,
and our will make fun of us, etc. Well that's fine,
it's parts part of getting old. So no one's picking
on him for aging. The problem is that this particular
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old man happened to be the sitting president of the
United States, and the bigger problem than that was that
everybody around him was covering it up, right. I mean
that that the sitting president of the United States was
senile and that was being covered up, although it's not
something you can really cover up. I mean my comment
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on all this is, look, everybody knew that he was
just a doddering old fool. I mean every time he
came out in public, he performed in a way that
only a doddering old fool would perform. Now, he had some,
you know, better moments and some worse moments. Again, like
everyone who was aging had some better moments and some
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worse moments, but it was the better ones. Well, I mean,
wasn't there like a State of the Union or some
speech he gave. I remember where people were like, oh,
he's back, he's fired up. I mean, they had clearly
given him some kind of upper you know, like cocaine
or something. But you know, long story short, there was enough,
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you know, he would do enough things that again what
would have been considered at best hitting the standard, right,
I don't remember Biden never doing anything where anyone was
just like, oh my word, what an amazing you know,
national leader. But he did enough things that people could
make the excuse that, oh no, no, look at this
that he did, that's meeting the standard and therefore he's
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not senile while sweeping under the rug all the things
that clearly indicated he was seenile. But anyone paying any attention,
which by the way, includes the heads of other countries,
some of which do not like the United States of America.
Anyone who was paying attention was aware that Joe Biden
had lost his faculties and was not in a position
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to effectively and properly be the president of the United States.
But no one cared about that, right, which again, you know,
sort of ties ironically back to this, well, doesn't matter
what the government does. We have proven that the United
States will chug along when the president can't be the president. Now,
the downside to that is, you know, you're letting people
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that you haven't elected run the country because the government
wasn't shut down at the time, and so you know,
we're sort of demonstrating for all the world to see,
to include the citizens of the United States. And we
don't really need the Congress because they're not really doing anything,
And you don't even need a functional president. You can
put a senile old man in that job, and you
know what, country chugs along pretty well. What would be
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interesting to see is what would happen if we had
an efficient, effective Congress and a fully capable president who
was qualified and suitable for the job. What would happen then?
But I can't remember the last time that was true,
perhaps not even in my lifetime. So I don't really know, Brad.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Have you heard of the Long Term Behavioral Ecology of
California Ground Squirrels Project. Now it's run by a woman
named Jennifer E. Smith good Fair. So apparently these people
their whole life is monitoring squirrels. And then then again,
I'm not going to disagree with you. They did nothing
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to protect peanut, right, Peanut, the flying squirrel pe nuts
not in California.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Peanut was in the great state of New York, where
they just you know, they execute squirrels. So if they
had it.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Well, according to call these people in California, they are
over the past year, really since last summer six months,
they are seeing habits or traits in the squirrels they
observe that they've never seen before in the four hundred
years that the Long Term Behavioral Ecology of California Ground
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Squirrel Project.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Has been in existence.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It has been around for ford years.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
For that's what it says. That's what it says here
in the notes.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
So, starting in June and July of twenty twenty four,
in Briona's Regional Park in Martinez, California, I believe you
had a softball league there back in your salad days.
They started witnessing interactions between squirrels and field mice. Have
you ever seen the play between squirrels and field mice?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, I mean I haven't personally observed it. No.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I guess they're sometimes playful, Brad, but sometimes they're not.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
They're deadly.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And of the seventy four interactions between these squirrels.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
And these little bowls and little.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Field mice, forty two percent of the time involved the
squirrel eating the field mouse, which is unheard of, right.
It's unheard of because typically the squirrels like nuts. But
apparently there are bloodthirsty squirrels and it's an expanding problem,
going beyond Briona's State Park in Martinez, California and going
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to other places. But these some of the some of
the comments from some of the researchers. And again keep
in mind, broad these are people who know a thing
or two about squirrels, right, because that's what they did.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Sure, the first person said, quote, in our twelve years
of conducting observations paradetical for this organization, that's been around
four hundred years on hundreds of squirrels, We have never
observed any incidents of mouse hunting before this summer.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I could barely believe my eyes.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We saw this behavior almost every day after early June.
Once we started looking, we saw it everywhere. It was
a carnage.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
So there it is.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
What do you think, No, the squirrels are beefing with
the field mice. This happens, right, It's like the Jets
and the sharks. Has no one seen west Side story?
I mean, what's the problem here?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
When you're a jet, you're a jet from Yeah, I have.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I mean, that's it's it's as simple as that something
got that. Maybe the ground squirrels in California feel like
the field mice were the ones that ratted out peanut
in New York. There a field mice in New York.
Field mice are you know? They know each other. It's
like one big family. Same things true of squirrels. Everybody
knows it. And so it could be that the California squirrels,
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you know, had a couple of questions for the California
field mice after the peanut incident, and there was a
rumor that it was a mouse that dropped the dime
on the squirrel and that was. I believe it was
common knowledge in New York. And so they're beefing's it
and and the squirrels are bigger and so you know what,
field mice. If that's the way you want to play
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the game, you know, then these are the things that happen.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
So we've been living in a world with this January
sixth thing forever, right since January sixth, since the world's
greatest insurrection his extreme mankind.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
So, and we've been told over and over again that
there were no FBI agents or personnel or informants as
part of the this whole friggin thing, and I don't
even know. I mean, it gets the point we don't
even know who to believe anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
That's what we're told. And normally you'd be like if
Old Jay Edgar told you that, you'd be like, fine, done,
you know, I believe you.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
But you know, this is what they tell This is
the crap they tell you. And anyone who said anything
opposite that has been called like a not probably been arrested.
I mean, some of these people from January sixth have
been arrested and they've been put away and they haven't
even had hearings yet or basic constitutional rights are frozen
because of this whole subversion of democracy thing.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
And so lo and behold.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You know, they come out with a report in the
last couple of days is from the Inspector General saying that,
you know, there's no evidence that FBI employees were part
of the crowd, but we had twenty six confidential human
sources working in the crowd, including like more than half
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of them that broke into the capitol or subverted the
restricted area around the capitol. I mean, and then that
was the whole claim all along. They had all these
people who were instigating some of this, who were working
for the freaking FBI. And this report comes out and
it basically says just that. It says that there were
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these people that knew about the protest groups are going
to be there and got somehow wiggled their way into
pre rally meetings of these protest groups and were encouraging
these people to go.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
And breach the capitol.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And I'm not saying that these are the people that
are solely responsible for it, but I mean, just the
craziest stuff, like why would the FBI do that?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, I mean, I don't I don't know exactly what
the thinking was. But you know, a obviously they're slicing
the bologny a little thin to say, well, it's okay
because there were no there was no one on the FBI,
you know, the actual employees of the FBI that were
part of fomenting this you know, riot or rally or
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whatever you want to call it. And but there were
people on FBI's payroll there doing it. I mean, okay, regardless,
the FBI should be explaining itself to answer the very
question you just asked. But my guess is that they were,
you know, trying to stir the pot and see what
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would happen so that they could identify those that they
felt like were domestic terrorists and you know, needed to
be dealt with, right, I mean, if you want to,
if you want to give the FBI, I as much
credit as humanly possible, which in this case I really don't,
even though I was a former agent. But if you
want to give them credit, you can say, well, they
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you know, they probably felt like they were domestic terrorists there,
which again, you know, the bureau's list of domestic terrorists
is not great. I mean, it's not clearly biased, and
you know, you want to run on the ground, you
want to put them in a position to see where
they will commit a crime. But depending on what the
sources were doing, sounds like there's some serious opportunity for
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entrapment there. I mean you got to be and again,
I was an agent a long time ago, and the
rules were different, and I would argue better, but you
got to be very careful what you do with your sources, right,
I mean, they are effectively agents of the government as well.
I mean that was drilled into our heads time and
time and time again. You can't have a source committed crime, right,
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or violate someone's rights under your auspices, right, I mean
you cannot do that. They under your agency, they become
agents effectively. Right. You're not responsible for everything they do,
but if you told them to do something, you're responsible
for that, and you mishandle your agents and you're going
to screw up your cases. I mean, that was always
my biggest concern. I wasn't trying to entrap anybody, but
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I was investigating real criminals and I didn't want them
to walk because I made some investigative mistake, and so
you know, I paid close attention to that as did
everybody I worked with, and you know, the idea that
you would put a bunch of sources in this thing,
and if it turns out that they were the ones
kind of leading the charge, I see no problem with
putting sources into a group that you think, you know,
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might be dangerous. That that is the job of the FBI.
If you've got sources you can put in there, you
should put them in there. But what they should be
doing is observing and reporting and saying, hey, you know,
this seems to be getting a little out of hand
or whatever. They should not be instigating. And if it
turns out they were, then yeah, I mean, the bureaus
got a lot of explaining to do. But I don't
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even know if that will ever come out right, if
we'll ever get the truth on that, because unfortunately, again,
we don't have any journalists. We don't have anybody who's
you know, taking up that mantle to kind of put
government in a position where it has to be honest
with the people. So I'm sure if you look at
right leaning reports on this, that you know their position
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is that it was the FBI instigated the whole thing.
If you look at left leaning reports on this, it's
going to be that the FBI was just there doing
their job and they did a good job of it,
and all the people that are in jail deserve to
be in jail, et cetera, et cetera. See, yeah, I
mean you just that's the problem.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You can't get the truth anyway. That's that's that. So
that's another one. Have you heard of? Well, of course you.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Have Luis Alberto Zamora who's a nutritionist for the University
of Michigan Nutrition Center, and obsolently.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
He actually has been good.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
So a lot of these nutritionists now have gone on
and some more obviously is well known outside of he
was third in line for Man of the Year at
times this year. But he did a study correlating specific
instances of eating with time either deducted or added to
your life. So example, he's an example for you have
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like a tin of pringles and you lose so much
time in your you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Saying, Yeah, no, I got it.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
It's like a short cut, shortcut. Do you want to
take that shot? I don't know, mm hm uh.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So he went through some popular foods and did calculus
specific calculations.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
You know, the university you.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Have m University of Michigan familiar with it.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Mark Fishigan, Right, anyway, he popular foods and did some math.
So bacon, if you eat bacon, and here's the other thing, Brad,
it's interesting. There are some foods that add to your life. Okay,
So there are some foods you eat. If you eat
a meal, in particular, food that will add to your life,
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it won't be subtracting, because it'll be.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Adding in effect. Okay, following you, So I'm going to
give you some food. This is a fun game we
play sometimes.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I'm going to give you some foods and you tell
me if they add or subtract, and in fact what
they add are subtract you know how many minutes and
sometimes it can be weeks like for example, for example,
if you take a cyanide capsule, right, doctor, that is
going to subtract a bunch of years.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Of your life, all the rest of them quite frankly.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah, correct, correct, So bacon, what do you think bacon is? Well?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Given the general tilt of nutrition research in this country today,
and just as aside, I read a very interesting thing
that basically we really don't understand how nutrition works. Like
none of the nutritional studies are particularly very good. But
just given the way that it seems to be going
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in this country day, I'm going to say, bacon, lot
of saturated fats, that's going to be not good for you.
It's going to be a subtraction.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Six minutes. Sugar free cola.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well again, see this is another interesting thing where they've
they've you know, recently come out and basically said that
all of the sugar replacement chemicals are really not bad
for you. That there's you know, they're not they're just
not armful. So if you like diet so to go
ahead and drink it. But that has I don't think
has yet hit the mainstream. So I'm going to go
ahead and say that that's going to subtract as well.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Twelve minutes, cheese burger.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh, that's that's a subtraction for sure.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Nine minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And then a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Uh, ten minutes, subtraction.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Thirty six minutes because it's ultra processed.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Okay, yep, okay.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Now how about this one, peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Uh,
not as.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Many, I don't know, maybe a minute. It's subtracts. I'm
going to still say it's subtracts, but maybe any peanut butter.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
According to Professor's more and I'm sure he's a professor
or something, it actually adds thirty two minutes to your lifespan.
So theoretically, bread, you could eat three cheeseburgers and a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the same time, right
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in the same sitting, if you will, and effectively add
what would be what four minutes to you or five
minutes to your life.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, it's kind of like offsetting penalties. And yeah, I
my guess is is that while this is interesting, you
know informationally that it's not doesn't really work that way.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
How about a handful of nuts and seeds.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Well, let's be good my twenty four minutes. Yeah, it's
adding up right, what.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
About fruit adding ten minutes?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
So you sit down, you have a slab of watermelon,
and you have like six hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
You're still not doing great, but you're doing better than you.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Would otherwise exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But listen, we talked about last week this Trump stuff
going on, right, so just to go through the roll call, right,
he in the past week or so, he won those
Supreme Court decisions.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
He's got the stock.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Market at an all time high. I don't know what
it did today, but at all time high. He's got
peace in the war between Congo and Rwanda. He stepped
in and broke her that piece. There's a sixty day
ceasefire with Hamas and Israel going on the southern border
again completely quiet.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
They're zero crossings.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
He's got Rod de Desanta's building Alcatraz in the Everglades.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I don't know if you saw that.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
They built this big high security detention facility for illegal
crossers of the border.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
It's called the Alcatraz for alligator. And so Trump and.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Desantus were air and it seems like they're they're getting
along well now. And then you know, Trump was explaining
how if you're going to try to escape, you have
to run zigzag to get away from the alligators.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
But even then you have a one percent one percent chance.
So he's done that.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
He's reforming the the the.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Department of Health and all that stuff. He's getting the
JFK documents out.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
He's about to pass this budget bill that's going to
make permanent his tax cuts and give uh no tax
on tips and no tax on over time and no
tax on interest paid for car loans.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
I mean he in six months. I and also I
didn't even mention NATO.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
He got all the NATO members except for Spain to
kick in, you know, five percent towards towards the Common Defense.
When it was a couple of years ago, people were
laughing about whether or not you get him to two percent.
He's done all this in six months. I mean, it's
pretty frecking remarkable what he's accomplished. Pretty impressive if you
ask me.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
There was a radio commercial being played on broadcast radio
for who's the gal Who's the Secretary of Homeland Security?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Christine Nome?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Christine No, thank you? That is exactly who it was
who came on. This is the radio. It's on broadcast
FM radio. This comes on during a commercial break and
it's the voice of Christine Nomes. She doesn't identify herself
until the end, but she says, hey, you know what,
I guess you must have she must just said Secretary
Nome of the Department of Homeland Security and basically says, hey,
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if you are an illegal alien, leave because if we
find you, we are going to deport you and you
will not be allowed back in the country ever. If
you leave of your own accord and you reapply and
come through the legal process, then you know, we'll be
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happy to have you. But if you get and you know,
they're not out hunting. But she said, if you get
wrong up, you know, if you commit a crime and
you are apprehended in the course of that crime and
it is determined that you are in the country legally
and we deport you, which we will, you will never
be allowed back yet ever. And that Chris and I
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looked to that were like, wow, that's a little different.
It's a little different than the previous administration. Little then yeah,
and then she just goes and again you know, this
is Secretary of Christine Noan Well, the of the Department
of All Lamb Security. And you've been told you.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Know, I'm telling you I'm not hating it. I'm not
hating it. I'm liking what's going on. The economies. I'm
just I'm not.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Hating economies amazing at this point.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Speaking of which, speaking of which, listen to this. This
is you know, you can't even you can't even.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Make this stuff up.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
So you know, Trump, he's going after the universities, right,
basically cutting.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Off all federal funding to Harford.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So he threatens U Penn with the cutting off of
federal funding. So he ends and ends up in a
in a stipulated settlement with U Penn and the Remember
Leah Thomas, the gentleman that won all the women's It was.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
A year ago, wasn't that last year? We were talking
about that, and we went on on about the dudes.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
So Trump enters into his settlement with UPEN, and as
part of that, Upen has to issue apologies to the
real women who lost to Thomas. The college is required
to restore all their Division one swimming records and titles
and wipe clean the air quote records that Thomas mostly established.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
And they're going to.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Update the entire protocol and not allow biological.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Men to compete in women's sports. It's just hello, they
were there.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
They're like, you know, it's like toppling old General Lee's
statue out in front of the old Confederate courtouse and apomatics.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Yeah, they're taking out the records are gone.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Well, I mean that still to this day, that's one
of the more remarkable things I've ever witness.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Okay, set aside, she was a good swimmer, was great,
just I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Set aside that the whole gender debate, right, it's just
set it aside. When your winner gets out of the
pool with a very evident penus buffed into their bulge
one piece designed for a woman swimsuit and says, I
want okay, I don't want to talk about whether or
not he honestly thinks he's a girl. I don't care
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what he honestly thinks, or I don't care about his
pronouns if he wants to be called Cindy lu who. Fine,
But you cannot take the position that that was a
fair competition. And that's the part that gets me. I
don't even want to have the discussion about how you
should treat someone who wants to, you know, make themselves
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a member of the other gender. Fine. I mean I'm
willing to accept that we can do that. If you're
a dude with a big old package and you want
someone to call you Susie. Fine. I mean, you get
one life to live. You can live it that way
if you want. But to take the position that that
does not matter in an athletic competition, especially one like swimming,
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is nuts. And for an outfit like you pen to
just shrug and go, well, we don't see a point.
It's just the amount of self delusion necessary to take
the position that the person with the penis wearing the
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one piece swimsuit is the same as the person's without
penises in the one piece swimsuit is absurd, absurd, there's
no defense for that. Again, if you want to go
along with their choice or whatever you want to call it,
to be treated as though they are a woman, I
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think they're fine. You can do that if you want,
but you cannot take the position that it doesn't matter
in an athletic competition and that somehow that is fair.
And even if you say, well, I'm not really taking
that position that it's fair, I realize it's unfair. I
realize they have a gross advantage by being born a male.
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But you know, we want to take care of people.
We sort of. We're a democracy, right, so we vote
on things, and if you happen to be in the minority,
well then I'm sorry you don't get your way. And
yet when it came to this, we let one person
who said, no, I'm a girl and I want to
swim up like I'm a girl against against girls, even
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though I'm a boy. We let that one person wreck
it for everybody. Since when was that the American way
that you wreck something for everybody because of one person.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
No, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I'm just saying, technically, she he, Well, technically the swim
portion was.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Really good, like the strokes are really good. But it
doesn't matter to you because his records are gone. Brad
your whispers in the wind, all.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Right, buddy, they have it another best of and uh,
next week we'll be back live. We'll see what topics
we have to cover. You'll be back at your home station,
and you know we'll get it done as we always do.
Right here. Well, i'd be frequently.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
This has been IP frequently, once again clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You're welcome.
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Speaker 3 (01:13):
And what would it be without a government shutdown, which
it looks like we are.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
The big clock is.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Ticking and it looks like the government is going to
shut down, and that means everything screeches to a halt.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well, buddy, a couple of things right, So, first and
foremost somehow Congress has come to the errant determination that
this is like what they do like this should be
an embarrassment for any Congress. At a minimum, as the
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legislative branch, it is your job to keep the government open,
right Like, if you believe there should be a government,
then at a minimum that government should be functioning. Is
that that's the base, you know, very lowest bar you
can set for the legislative branches. Hey, listen, is the
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government open for business? I mean, set aside whether what
it's doing is important or meaningful, or it's doing it
well or poorly, just is it available to the people
of the United States. That would be about the lowest
bar you could set for any legislature. And it seems
like annually our legislature has you know, sort of flipped
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the script on us and is saying, no, we're going
to close the government, Like we see that as being
our job is to is to close the government. And frankly,
my response to that in almost every year again for
many years, I you know, I got my paycheck for
the government. But as you know, being in the military
and being in law enforcement, they no matter how hard
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they shut the government down, they tended to keep those
things running, so I you know, never lost a check
when they would do these government shutdowns. But my response was, good,
do it, Like, let's actually see what happens to the
American people if you just stop doing all the stupid
stuff that you're doing, which leads me to my second point,
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which is would anyone even notice if the government shut down?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Again, I get it if you're a government employee, don't
get a paycheck that has meaning, but as is being
constantly paraded before us these days, probably beneficially a lot
of government employees who you know, we probably don't need, right.
I'm not advocating for anyone to be put out on
the street, but be interesting to find out just exactly
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how much government we actually need and just exactly what
happens to the American people. My guess is that most
of us, the vast majority of us, if you shut
the government down secretly, didn't make a big deal out
of it. You just said, hey, we're not doing it.
We probably wouldn't notice, right. I Mean, the biggest interaction
we have with the federal government for most of us
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would be like the postal service, and if they shut
that down, you just shrug, and you walk to a
ups store and your stuff gets there quicker and easier anyway, right,
And so you know, I don't know that anyone would notice.
Perhaps it's the best way to go.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I mean, you notice when it's open, just because they
do like awful, awful things.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
But you know, I think it's.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I think it's interesting, right that you've got you're for
the last I mean, I don't know how many years
they just keep passing these little incremental continuing resolutions that
get you another couple of months or another four months,
or just pass this election just past the holidays so
they can all go home. They should make them stay
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there through the holidays until they figure it out, right,
I mean I think that's that's what Trump said, just
just figure it out right. Get the debt ceiling is stupid, right,
I mean, should there be a debt ceiling? Yeah, but
if it were a real ceiling. The problem with the
debt ceiling that keeps getting higher by congressional fiat is
that it's not a ceiling at all.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It's a retractable roof.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I see what you did there, that's clever.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yeah, I was just like that was a mic drop. Yeah.
So anyway. I mean, but that, but make them stay.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And while you're at it, Brad, attach shock collars to
every one of them, and when they lie, shock them
and shock them a little more. Just gradually increase the
current every time they lie, going you know, going forward
every time they And then also, Brad, another thing I
would say is let every team in Major League Baseball
have one at bat with an aluminum bat in a
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game period.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You've done this before, you can't, I know, this is
like what Congress does. See this, This is like a
continuing resolution where you're talking about one subject shut down
to the government, and then you sneak in this pork
barrel thing about baseball. See that's the problem. That's why
we can't get a budget passed, is because we always
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you know, these these various and sundry representatives are sneaking
in their pet projects, which for you is the you know,
the aluminum bat once in the game thing because you
don't like pictures, like you want to see a picture's
head get knocked clean off.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Oh lord, that's just done true.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So I mean, you're it's a little sketchy, but I
will say this, I think I just fine do it right,
Like you threaten, and you threaten, you're like, oh no, no,
we're gonna have no. I think the vast majority of
Americans today would not only not notice, but if you
ask them, if you said, listen, here's your choice. You
can have the government continue to do what it's been
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doing for the last you know, ten years, just nothing profitable,
not really legislating, investigating this, investigating that, throwing stones back
and forth between the parties, lunatics running around saying things
that only lunatics would say, doing things that only lunar
ticks would do, or we just throw the whole thing
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out and just kind of self governed for a while.
I'll tell you what, like, just get up and go
to work, right And if there's no government, then there's
really nothing to pay taxes for, so you know, we
won't be collecting taxes. And my guess is that that
won't happen, right Like, even though the government is not
providing services, they will still tax us for the period
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that they were shut down and doing nothing, So you know,
they'll cleverly figure that out. But my guess is that
most Americans would just go, Okay, let's give that a try.
Let's just do that let's just have state government, local government,
because you want to have cops and firefighters and you know,
et cetera, et cetera. We want that, we want you know,
schools running, et cetera. Maybe maybe maybe in many places
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people probably saying, now, you know what, you can shut
down the schools too. But point being, my guess is
most Americans, if the federal government truly threatened and said,
you know, we're not going to do the things we
normally do, most Americans would go okay, all right, let's
try it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But in any event, the Wall Street Journal came up
with an article citing a number of sources within the
Biden White House who said, and I quote, all the
warning signs that Biden was quote, senile from day one
were displayed for those in his inner circle, and they
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didn't say anything. And then it goes on to list
and this is a main Wall Street journal which never
would have published this four months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
They listed everything.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
March twenty twenty one, when he fell down the stairs
of Air Force one.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Remember he fell down the stairs a bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, And then they had to be that's all did.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Then they had the.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Shorter staircase from the shorter staircase, coming out that he's
got that now. June twenty one, he called the Royal
Air Force the RFA a number of times. November twenty one,
he fell asleep while listening to speakers at a police conference.
June twenty twenty two, he toppled over in his bike
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near his Delaware Beach home, once owned by the DuPont family.
October twenty twenty two, he multiple times mispronounced the name
of the British Prime Minister, the new One. May twenty three,
he stumbled down the steps at the JU seven meeting
when he fell in front of the jew seven leaders.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
June twenty three.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Remember that this year you were at brad This is
where he tripped and fell while handing out diplumbas at
the Air Force Academy. You were there for that, I was.
September twenty three. He repeats the story about a white
supremacist rally twice at the same event. September twenty three,
he walked off the stage and walked right into a flagpole.
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And when he was he was doing some joint press
conference with Brazil's president. Instead of shaking his hand at
the podium, he turned the other way. And walked right
into a flagpole. September twenty twenty three, he called the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus the Black Caucus. September twenty three, again
he claimed he had not he's been to every mass
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shooting while president, which was not true. March twenty four,
he told of train journeys over a collapse bridge in
Delaware or Pennsylvania which never had train tracks. June twenty four,
he had the debate with Trump twenty four. July twenty four,
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he called Putin, I know, he called President Zelenski President Putin.
He called in the same month, July twenty twenty four,
Kamala Harris, Vice President Trump. He forgot his Defense secretary's
name in an interview that same month, calling him that
black man.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
November twenty four, he fell on the beach, and at
that time he also wandered into a rainforest, the Amazon,
just wandered into it. And then Brad and Angola. Just
this month, he fell asleep at a live summit in Africa.
So the Wall Street Journal stitched all these together, interviewed
some insiders, and it seems that Brad, he and I
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didn't see this coming.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But apparently he's seen now.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
But I mean it was it was nice of you
to run through that list and just kind of remind
us all of the very obvious and public things that
this doddering old man has done while also being president
the United States. I mean, none of them are horrific, right,
I mean, these are the kinds of things that if
you said, hey, my, you know, eighty year old grandfather
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did this, you might chuckle a little bit and golly right,
but you know, no one would really care and no
one would be taken aback. It's what old folks do.
If you and I live long enough, it will be
the kind of thing that you and I will do,
and our will make fun of us, etc. Well that's fine,
it's parts part of getting old. So no one's picking
on him for aging. The problem is that this particular
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old man happened to be the sitting president of the
United States, and the bigger problem than that was that
everybody around him was covering it up, right. I mean
that that the sitting president of the United States was
senile and that was being covered up, although it's not
something you can really cover up. I mean my comment
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on all this is, look, everybody knew that he was
just a doddering old fool. I mean every time he
came out in public, he performed in a way that
only a doddering old fool would perform. Now, he had some,
you know, better moments and some worse moments. Again, like
everyone who was aging had some better moments and some
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worse moments, but it was the better ones. Well, I mean,
wasn't there like a State of the Union or some
speech he gave. I remember where people were like, oh,
he's back, he's fired up. I mean, they had clearly
given him some kind of upper you know, like cocaine
or something. But you know, long story short, there was enough,
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you know, he would do enough things that again what
would have been considered at best hitting the standard, right,
I don't remember Biden never doing anything where anyone was
just like, oh my word, what an amazing you know,
national leader. But he did enough things that people could
make the excuse that, oh no, no, look at this
that he did, that's meeting the standard and therefore he's
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not senile while sweeping under the rug all the things
that clearly indicated he was seenile. But anyone paying any attention,
which by the way, includes the heads of other countries,
some of which do not like the United States of America.
Anyone who was paying attention was aware that Joe Biden
had lost his faculties and was not in a position
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to effectively and properly be the president of the United States.
But no one cared about that, right, which again, you know,
sort of ties ironically back to this, well, doesn't matter
what the government does. We have proven that the United
States will chug along when the president can't be the president. Now,
the downside to that is, you know, you're letting people
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that you haven't elected run the country because the government
wasn't shut down at the time, and so you know,
we're sort of demonstrating for all the world to see,
to include the citizens of the United States. And we
don't really need the Congress because they're not really doing anything,
And you don't even need a functional president. You can
put a senile old man in that job, and you
know what, country chugs along pretty well. What would be
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interesting to see is what would happen if we had
an efficient, effective Congress and a fully capable president who
was qualified and suitable for the job. What would happen then?
But I can't remember the last time that was true,
perhaps not even in my lifetime. So I don't really know, Brad.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Have you heard of the Long Term Behavioral Ecology of
California Ground Squirrels Project. Now it's run by a woman
named Jennifer E. Smith good Fair. So apparently these people
their whole life is monitoring squirrels. And then then again,
I'm not going to disagree with you. They did nothing
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to protect peanut, right, Peanut, the flying squirrel pe nuts
not in California.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Peanut was in the great state of New York, where
they just you know, they execute squirrels. So if they
had it.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Well, according to call these people in California, they are
over the past year, really since last summer six months,
they are seeing habits or traits in the squirrels they
observe that they've never seen before in the four hundred
years that the Long Term Behavioral Ecology of California Ground
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Squirrel Project.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Has been in existence.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It has been around for ford years.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
For that's what it says. That's what it says here
in the notes.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
So, starting in June and July of twenty twenty four,
in Briona's Regional Park in Martinez, California, I believe you
had a softball league there back in your salad days.
They started witnessing interactions between squirrels and field mice. Have
you ever seen the play between squirrels and field mice?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, I mean I haven't personally observed it. No.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I guess they're sometimes playful, Brad, but sometimes they're not.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
They're deadly.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And of the seventy four interactions between these squirrels.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
And these little bowls and little.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Field mice, forty two percent of the time involved the
squirrel eating the field mouse, which is unheard of, right.
It's unheard of because typically the squirrels like nuts. But
apparently there are bloodthirsty squirrels and it's an expanding problem,
going beyond Briona's State Park in Martinez, California and going
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to other places. But these some of the some of
the comments from some of the researchers. And again keep
in mind, broad these are people who know a thing
or two about squirrels, right, because that's what they did.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Sure, the first person said, quote, in our twelve years
of conducting observations paradetical for this organization, that's been around
four hundred years on hundreds of squirrels, We have never
observed any incidents of mouse hunting before this summer.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I could barely believe my eyes.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We saw this behavior almost every day after early June.
Once we started looking, we saw it everywhere. It was
a carnage.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
So there it is.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
What do you think, No, the squirrels are beefing with
the field mice. This happens, right, It's like the Jets
and the sharks. Has no one seen west Side story?
I mean, what's the problem here?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
When you're a jet, you're a jet from Yeah, I have.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I mean, that's it's it's as simple as that something
got that. Maybe the ground squirrels in California feel like
the field mice were the ones that ratted out peanut
in New York. There a field mice in New York.
Field mice are you know? They know each other. It's
like one big family. Same things true of squirrels. Everybody
knows it. And so it could be that the California squirrels,
(18:34):
you know, had a couple of questions for the California
field mice after the peanut incident, and there was a
rumor that it was a mouse that dropped the dime
on the squirrel and that was. I believe it was
common knowledge in New York. And so they're beefing's it
and and the squirrels are bigger and so you know what,
field mice. If that's the way you want to play
(18:55):
the game, you know, then these are the things that happen.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
So we've been living in a world with this January
sixth thing forever, right since January sixth, since the world's
greatest insurrection his extreme mankind.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
So, and we've been told over and over again that
there were no FBI agents or personnel or informants as
part of the this whole friggin thing, and I don't
even know. I mean, it gets the point we don't
even know who to believe anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
That's what we're told. And normally you'd be like if
Old Jay Edgar told you that, you'd be like, fine, done,
you know, I believe you.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
But you know, this is what they tell This is
the crap they tell you. And anyone who said anything
opposite that has been called like a not probably been arrested.
I mean, some of these people from January sixth have
been arrested and they've been put away and they haven't
even had hearings yet or basic constitutional rights are frozen
because of this whole subversion of democracy thing.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
And so lo and behold.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You know, they come out with a report in the
last couple of days is from the Inspector General saying that,
you know, there's no evidence that FBI employees were part
of the crowd, but we had twenty six confidential human
sources working in the crowd, including like more than half
(20:17):
of them that broke into the capitol or subverted the
restricted area around the capitol. I mean, and then that
was the whole claim all along. They had all these
people who were instigating some of this, who were working
for the freaking FBI. And this report comes out and
it basically says just that. It says that there were
(20:37):
these people that knew about the protest groups are going
to be there and got somehow wiggled their way into
pre rally meetings of these protest groups and were encouraging
these people to go.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
And breach the capitol.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And I'm not saying that these are the people that
are solely responsible for it, but I mean, just the
craziest stuff, like why would the FBI do that?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, I mean, I don't I don't know exactly what
the thinking was. But you know, a obviously they're slicing
the bologny a little thin to say, well, it's okay
because there were no there was no one on the FBI,
you know, the actual employees of the FBI that were
part of fomenting this you know, riot or rally or
(21:28):
whatever you want to call it. And but there were
people on FBI's payroll there doing it. I mean, okay, regardless,
the FBI should be explaining itself to answer the very
question you just asked. But my guess is that they were,
you know, trying to stir the pot and see what
(21:49):
would happen so that they could identify those that they
felt like were domestic terrorists and you know, needed to
be dealt with, right, I mean, if you want to,
if you want to give the FBI, I as much
credit as humanly possible, which in this case I really don't,
even though I was a former agent. But if you
want to give them credit, you can say, well, they
(22:10):
you know, they probably felt like they were domestic terrorists there,
which again, you know, the bureau's list of domestic terrorists
is not great. I mean, it's not clearly biased, and
you know, you want to run on the ground, you
want to put them in a position to see where
they will commit a crime. But depending on what the
sources were doing, sounds like there's some serious opportunity for
(22:32):
entrapment there. I mean you got to be and again,
I was an agent a long time ago, and the
rules were different, and I would argue better, but you
got to be very careful what you do with your sources, right,
I mean, they are effectively agents of the government as well.
I mean that was drilled into our heads time and
time and time again. You can't have a source committed crime, right,
(22:55):
or violate someone's rights under your auspices, right, I mean
you cannot do that. They under your agency, they become
agents effectively. Right. You're not responsible for everything they do,
but if you told them to do something, you're responsible
for that, and you mishandle your agents and you're going
to screw up your cases. I mean, that was always
my biggest concern. I wasn't trying to entrap anybody, but
(23:18):
I was investigating real criminals and I didn't want them
to walk because I made some investigative mistake, and so
you know, I paid close attention to that as did
everybody I worked with, and you know, the idea that
you would put a bunch of sources in this thing,
and if it turns out that they were the ones
kind of leading the charge, I see no problem with
putting sources into a group that you think, you know,
(23:40):
might be dangerous. That that is the job of the FBI.
If you've got sources you can put in there, you
should put them in there. But what they should be
doing is observing and reporting and saying, hey, you know,
this seems to be getting a little out of hand
or whatever. They should not be instigating. And if it
turns out they were, then yeah, I mean, the bureaus
got a lot of explaining to do. But I don't
(24:01):
even know if that will ever come out right, if
we'll ever get the truth on that, because unfortunately, again,
we don't have any journalists. We don't have anybody who's
you know, taking up that mantle to kind of put
government in a position where it has to be honest
with the people. So I'm sure if you look at
right leaning reports on this, that you know their position
(24:22):
is that it was the FBI instigated the whole thing.
If you look at left leaning reports on this, it's
going to be that the FBI was just there doing
their job and they did a good job of it,
and all the people that are in jail deserve to
be in jail, et cetera, et cetera. See, yeah, I
mean you just that's the problem.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You can't get the truth anyway. That's that's that. So
that's another one. Have you heard of? Well, of course you.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Have Luis Alberto Zamora who's a nutritionist for the University
of Michigan Nutrition Center, and obsolently.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
He actually has been good.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
So a lot of these nutritionists now have gone on
and some more obviously is well known outside of he
was third in line for Man of the Year at
times this year. But he did a study correlating specific
instances of eating with time either deducted or added to
your life. So example, he's an example for you have
(25:21):
like a tin of pringles and you lose so much
time in your you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Saying, Yeah, no, I got it.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
It's like a short cut, shortcut. Do you want to
take that shot? I don't know, mm hm uh.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So he went through some popular foods and did calculus
specific calculations.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
You know, the university you.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Have m University of Michigan familiar with it.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Mark Fishigan, Right, anyway, he popular foods and did some math.
So bacon, if you eat bacon, and here's the other thing, Brad,
it's interesting. There are some foods that add to your life. Okay,
So there are some foods you eat. If you eat
a meal, in particular, food that will add to your life,
(26:08):
it won't be subtracting, because it'll be.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Adding in effect. Okay, following you, So I'm going to
give you some food. This is a fun game we
play sometimes.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I'm going to give you some foods and you tell
me if they add or subtract, and in fact what
they add are subtract you know how many minutes and
sometimes it can be weeks like for example, for example,
if you take a cyanide capsule, right, doctor, that is
going to subtract a bunch of years.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Of your life, all the rest of them quite frankly.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah, correct, correct, So bacon, what do you think bacon is? Well?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Given the general tilt of nutrition research in this country today,
and just as aside, I read a very interesting thing
that basically we really don't understand how nutrition works. Like
none of the nutritional studies are particularly very good. But
just given the way that it seems to be going
(27:03):
in this country day, I'm going to say, bacon, lot
of saturated fats, that's going to be not good for you.
It's going to be a subtraction.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Six minutes. Sugar free cola.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well again, see this is another interesting thing where they've
they've you know, recently come out and basically said that
all of the sugar replacement chemicals are really not bad
for you. That there's you know, they're not they're just
not armful. So if you like diet so to go
ahead and drink it. But that has I don't think
has yet hit the mainstream. So I'm going to go
ahead and say that that's going to subtract as well.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Twelve minutes, cheese burger.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh, that's that's a subtraction for sure.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Nine minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And then a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Uh, ten minutes, subtraction.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Thirty six minutes because it's ultra processed.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Okay, yep, okay.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Now how about this one, peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Uh,
not as.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Many, I don't know, maybe a minute. It's subtracts. I'm
going to still say it's subtracts, but maybe any peanut butter.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
According to Professor's more and I'm sure he's a professor
or something, it actually adds thirty two minutes to your lifespan.
So theoretically, bread, you could eat three cheeseburgers and a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the same time, right
(28:27):
in the same sitting, if you will, and effectively add
what would be what four minutes to you or five
minutes to your life.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, it's kind of like offsetting penalties. And yeah, I
my guess is is that while this is interesting, you
know informationally that it's not doesn't really work that way.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
How about a handful of nuts and seeds.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Well, let's be good my twenty four minutes. Yeah, it's
adding up right, what.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
About fruit adding ten minutes?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
So you sit down, you have a slab of watermelon,
and you have like six hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
You're still not doing great, but you're doing better than you.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Would otherwise exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But listen, we talked about last week this Trump stuff
going on, right, so just to go through the roll call, right,
he in the past week or so, he won those
Supreme Court decisions.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
He's got the stock.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Market at an all time high. I don't know what
it did today, but at all time high. He's got
peace in the war between Congo and Rwanda. He stepped
in and broke her that piece. There's a sixty day
ceasefire with Hamas and Israel going on the southern border
again completely quiet.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
They're zero crossings.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
He's got Rod de Desanta's building Alcatraz in the Everglades.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I don't know if you saw that.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
They built this big high security detention facility for illegal
crossers of the border.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
It's called the Alcatraz for alligator. And so Trump and.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Desantus were air and it seems like they're they're getting
along well now. And then you know, Trump was explaining
how if you're going to try to escape, you have
to run zigzag to get away from the alligators.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
But even then you have a one percent one percent chance.
So he's done that.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
He's reforming the the the.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Department of Health and all that stuff. He's getting the
JFK documents out.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
He's about to pass this budget bill that's going to
make permanent his tax cuts and give uh no tax
on tips and no tax on over time and no
tax on interest paid for car loans.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
I mean he in six months. I and also I
didn't even mention NATO.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
He got all the NATO members except for Spain to
kick in, you know, five percent towards towards the Common Defense.
When it was a couple of years ago, people were
laughing about whether or not you get him to two percent.
He's done all this in six months. I mean, it's
pretty frecking remarkable what he's accomplished. Pretty impressive if you
ask me.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
There was a radio commercial being played on broadcast radio
for who's the gal Who's the Secretary of Homeland Security?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Christine Nome?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Christine No, thank you? That is exactly who it was
who came on. This is the radio. It's on broadcast
FM radio. This comes on during a commercial break and
it's the voice of Christine Nomes. She doesn't identify herself
until the end, but she says, hey, you know what,
I guess you must have she must just said Secretary
Nome of the Department of Homeland Security and basically says, hey,
(31:39):
if you are an illegal alien, leave because if we
find you, we are going to deport you and you
will not be allowed back in the country ever. If
you leave of your own accord and you reapply and
come through the legal process, then you know, we'll be
(31:59):
happy to have you. But if you get and you know,
they're not out hunting. But she said, if you get
wrong up, you know, if you commit a crime and
you are apprehended in the course of that crime and
it is determined that you are in the country legally
and we deport you, which we will, you will never
be allowed back yet ever. And that Chris and I
(32:21):
looked to that were like, wow, that's a little different.
It's a little different than the previous administration. Little then yeah,
and then she just goes and again you know, this
is Secretary of Christine Noan Well, the of the Department
of All Lamb Security. And you've been told you.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Know, I'm telling you I'm not hating it. I'm not
hating it. I'm liking what's going on. The economies. I'm
just I'm not.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Hating economies amazing at this point.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Speaking of which, speaking of which, listen to this. This
is you know, you can't even you can't even.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Make this stuff up.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
So you know, Trump, he's going after the universities, right,
basically cutting.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Off all federal funding to Harford.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So he threatens U Penn with the cutting off of
federal funding. So he ends and ends up in a
in a stipulated settlement with U Penn and the Remember
Leah Thomas, the gentleman that won all the women's It was.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
A year ago, wasn't that last year? We were talking
about that, and we went on on about the dudes.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
So Trump enters into his settlement with UPEN, and as
part of that, Upen has to issue apologies to the
real women who lost to Thomas. The college is required
to restore all their Division one swimming records and titles
and wipe clean the air quote records that Thomas mostly established.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
And they're going to.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Update the entire protocol and not allow biological.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Men to compete in women's sports. It's just hello, they
were there.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
They're like, you know, it's like toppling old General Lee's
statue out in front of the old Confederate courtouse and apomatics.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Yeah, they're taking out the records are gone.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Well, I mean that still to this day, that's one
of the more remarkable things I've ever witness.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Okay, set aside, she was a good swimmer, was great,
just I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Set aside that the whole gender debate, right, it's just
set it aside. When your winner gets out of the
pool with a very evident penus buffed into their bulge
one piece designed for a woman swimsuit and says, I
want okay, I don't want to talk about whether or
not he honestly thinks he's a girl. I don't care
(34:40):
what he honestly thinks, or I don't care about his
pronouns if he wants to be called Cindy lu who. Fine,
But you cannot take the position that that was a
fair competition. And that's the part that gets me. I
don't even want to have the discussion about how you
should treat someone who wants to, you know, make themselves
(35:00):
a member of the other gender. Fine. I mean I'm
willing to accept that we can do that. If you're
a dude with a big old package and you want
someone to call you Susie. Fine. I mean, you get
one life to live. You can live it that way
if you want. But to take the position that that
does not matter in an athletic competition, especially one like swimming,
(35:23):
is nuts. And for an outfit like you pen to
just shrug and go, well, we don't see a point.
It's just the amount of self delusion necessary to take
the position that the person with the penis wearing the
(35:44):
one piece swimsuit is the same as the person's without
penises in the one piece swimsuit is absurd, absurd, there's
no defense for that. Again, if you want to go
along with their choice or whatever you want to call it,
to be treated as though they are a woman, I
(36:07):
think they're fine. You can do that if you want,
but you cannot take the position that it doesn't matter
in an athletic competition and that somehow that is fair.
And even if you say, well, I'm not really taking
that position that it's fair, I realize it's unfair. I
realize they have a gross advantage by being born a male.
(36:27):
But you know, we want to take care of people.
We sort of. We're a democracy, right, so we vote
on things, and if you happen to be in the minority,
well then I'm sorry you don't get your way. And
yet when it came to this, we let one person
who said, no, I'm a girl and I want to
swim up like I'm a girl against against girls, even
(36:51):
though I'm a boy. We let that one person wreck
it for everybody. Since when was that the American way
that you wreck something for everybody because of one person.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
No, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I'm just saying, technically, she he, Well, technically the swim
portion was.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Really good, like the strokes are really good. But it
doesn't matter to you because his records are gone. Brad
your whispers in the wind, all.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Right, buddy, they have it another best of and uh,
next week we'll be back live. We'll see what topics
we have to cover. You'll be back at your home station,
and you know we'll get it done as we always do.
Right here. Well, i'd be frequently.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
This has been IP frequently, once again clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You're welcome.
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