January 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Jack's losing his mind & Joe Biden's farewell speech
- Mailbag!
- The hostage return & ceasefire deal
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and
Jetty and He arm Draw.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Live from Studio C see you signor it is a
dimly lit room where's deput from the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getting communications compound here on Little Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We're under the tutelage of our general managers.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The hostages, not the sausages, and not Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
OI say that speech last night.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I tried to take one for the team, and I just,
I just I tried what a.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I didn't even consider watching that we would be big
on the return of the sausages today. Yeah, I assume
the President looked and sounded like an old man. But
the content I thought was damned interesting. I know you're
really into beating up old people with dementia.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I uh, I was interested in some of the content.
So I do want to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm worried about my own brain, got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So let Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Lost badly twice in chess to my son last night,
like badly, like.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And you were bringing it. I assume I was trying.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I have to try now to to beat him, and uh,
and I lost badly. Like I told him, I said,
this is the worst defeat I've ever had in chests
in my life. And I've played thousands.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Of games of chess. Chest. You know, Michael, you have
influenced me.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I was texting somebody about chess yesterday and I accidentally
texted Chest. I thought, that's Michael, that's Michael. Stop Michael anyway.
And then, just like this morning, I get to the
building to take my time, I leisurely time walk into
the car. I'd been sitting in my car listening to
news stuff like that. I get it there. I don't
have my key things, so I gotta go all the
way back to my car and I'm barely gonna make
it because i just can't remember stuff. And when I'm
(02:15):
playing chess and I'm sitting there and I just how
did you do that?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So I think I'm going down the road of Joe Biden. Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Wow, I certainly hope not. That's going to be inconvenient
for business, not to mention, you know, maybe maybe it'll
be hilarious though. Yeah, yeah, I had a moment like
that the other night. But then I realized it was
because I was just I was preoccupied.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I was focused on other things.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Although it involved an oven in this case, not like
turning it on or extending the time or so it
stayed on. But I thought, wow, that's the flip side
of forgetting to turn it off, which is like a
senior moment thing, right, like a worry about should dad
be in managed care? He left the oven on? Blah blah,
(03:00):
he should dad own a stove? Is that where you
are now?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, anyway, that's a tough one.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I was in the midst of complicated negotiations and that
was thinking of other things.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, And I assumed Joe Biden sounded like that last night.
But a couple of the.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Things he said are outrageous, just freaking outrageous.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It was slowed paste, mumbly and stumbly, full of utter fictions, cliches,
talking points and.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What the hell's it was just it was a mess.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, we are into a new era to where this
sort of thing happens, So I don't think it's gonna
land in such a way that it gets that much
attention or whatever, because we're just.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Into a new era.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
People say crazys all the time, even presidents. But if
you went back twenty years, if a George W. Bush
or a Bill Clinton had given a farewell speech and said,
I have a warning for America. We are coming under
the hold of an oligarchy that will make it impossible
for people on the bottom to rise up.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I mean, that would have been.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Earth shattering, right if the outgoing president had said, we're
falling under the fold of an oligarchy.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Because Elon Musk tweets a lot in favor of things
Trump does, We're now an oligarchy.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
He gave the Metal of Freedom to George Sorows last week,
who was allowed to uh Marxist prosecutors to run our
biggest cities.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That was fine.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But now that it's a billionaire on the other side,
you have to give a speech about how America is over.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's over. I know, I know, I was gonna say.
My responses are A, No, we're not. It might be.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That's the response to that, No we're not, and B
what were you talking about?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
God stop it?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, And the other reason, obviously not much reaction is
coming forth is that he is completely irrelevant and it's sad,
and it's just it is so what's done. It is
your last day of your senior class at high school,
presuming you're the sort who looks forward not back. Mostly
it's just and some teachers saying, you know, your desk
(05:09):
is a little messy, or like what shut up? So, yeah,
Biden's what Biden has to say is practically relevant. I
have enjoyed very much a piece of reporting on how
hurt Kamala Harris is that Joe Biden's walking around saying
he could have beaten Trump, not because it's in any
(05:29):
way irrelevant, but because it's just funny.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Well it's not true. That not true also, but oh.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's the delusions of the rambling old brattle trap.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, I've been in this, We've all been in the
situation before.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I'm sure Kamala Harris would like to say, Look, dude,
I mean, it's one thing you go around saying that,
and it's annoying and you don't need to say it,
and obviously it makes me look bad, but the fact.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That it's so not true, it's just not true.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Specifically is going around saying, you know, the poles I
saw I could have beaten him. She's gotta want to
sit him down and say, dude, come on, why do
you think Nancy Pelosi, you're best friend of fifty years,
that you've been talking about, cut your legs off at
the knees. Jill Biden gave an interview to the Washington
(06:14):
Post yesterday. The details came out in which she said
she's very disappointed in what Nancy Pelosi did well and
the other things Joe's running around saying is Look, the
only reason I dropped out was to keep the party
from being divided. I could have won. Wow, Hey, did
you set a timer when you put the meat in
(06:36):
the toaster oven? Grandpa Joe, you need to set a timer.
You need one of those pillcases. It keeps track of
have you taken your pill yet today?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Hey? I have those, so take it easy there. Boy.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
He needs he needs that for a life. I remember
when I had cancer. I was taken twenty one pills
a day and a long sheet of I had to
check gough. There's no way I could keep drag of
what I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh yeah, plus that fall down. I rattled like a Morocca.
It's terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's what I call the don't have a heart attack
or stroke variety pack and it's working so far. I
don't take a pill a week, thank god. Oh I
do half a dozen in the morning. So we got
lots to talk about. And then there's the Israel Israel
Hamas situation that is being reported entirely one direction by
most of the media, and one nugget on Fox that
I hadn't seen anywhere else that would have colored my
(07:29):
view of the story.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Today.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The current acting leader of Hamas put out a video
yesterday saying we won.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
October seventh was a glorious day.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We won, God willing there will be many more October sevenths.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yes yesterday he put that out.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Now, NPR and MSNBC and the other media that I
took in today is reporting Benjamin nettan Yahoo as usual
scuttling a piece deal. Doesn't want peace, wants to stay
in power. It's all about him, not even mentioning the
Hamas side of the negotiation, in which, for one thing,
they're demanding thirty three prisoners with life sentences to be
(08:13):
released that are almost certainly dedicated have dedicated their lives
to killing Israelis, and many many more prisoners to be released.
Who knows what the situation is with the prisoner, with
the hostages. They are going to give back, and your
leader just said, ah Man, October seventh was the greatest
day of my life. That was fantastic. I hope we
can do it again sometime. My final note on this,
and there's a great deal more to be said. Some
(08:35):
solid analysis I've come across is that I watched two
videos within an hour of each other last night, and
they were utterly indistinguishable. They were the same video. The
first one was the celebratory chanting and jumping up and
down and cheering in the streets at the announcement of
the ceasefire in Gaza, And the other video I watched
was the chanting and cheering valuah Bar and the beating
(08:57):
of the corpses and the beatings of the live hostages
as they were taken on October seventh. Not a small
band of militants, the people of Gaza doing this, and
they participated wholesale in the taking, the torturing, the raping,
and the holding of the hostages. Yeah boy, you talk
(09:17):
about an underreported, completely not reported aspect of this story.
The people of Gaza loved this. They thought it was awesome,
A hell of a lot of them. And you know
what the way geopolitics works, if there's a minority that
hated it, I feel terrible for them.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's awful. It's awful.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
They live under a terrorist, Islamist, monstrous regime.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
It's awful.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, well, that's an interesting story. We've got a lot
more on all of those coming up. Let's start the
show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this
at his Thursday January sixteenth, the or twenty twenty five.
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Let's begin then, officially, according to the FCC rules and regulations,
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Today after I gave an opportunity to study overnight.
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So can you tell me and this committee what the
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Vam Bondi John with Senator Alex Padilla. Ridiculous. She is
going to be confirmed though, that's all the news. No,
there's not really a hint of the fact that she's
not going to make it through. She will be your
new attorney general, starting very very soon.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
How does she also?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
According to the Internet, and I think in this case
is fairly accurate, own Adam Schiff. And then he fell
sound asleep afterward in the hearing. That's how a ghast
he is at Trump's awful nominees. Yeah, he was slumbering
like a baby seeing video.
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It's quite good. Yeah, it's got some real wit and wisdom.
So you could have told me, I would have forgotten.
I left my queen right there. I mean, it was
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I hate those Ravens. That's gonna be the game, man.
It's basically an even line. Oh yeah yeah, A couple
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I hate to come off as self congratulatory. But you know,
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The reaction to yesterday's one More Thing podcast, which never airs,
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Interestingly, my my beloved daughter de Landy May little d
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he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood and correct
the baseness of human nature. Need read but the history
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Was that? What's metaphorical? It's somebody you cannot trust. You
mustn't even if you like them.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Keep half an eye on them. Why because power corrupts.
Maybe they weren't corrupt at when you voted for them,
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Fastest way to clean up Ellie County would be a
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smiling Gavin and the city fathers and mothers who would
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(15:16):
Although they've done a lot better lately, and we'll do
better now with the new moderate mayor. Thank you, Chris,
good point. Ricky the Bricky says, good morning, gentlemen. I
don't know about this ceasefire agreement. I've heard a lot
of talk about several somewhat important aspects, but not one
word about returning the sausages hashtag no deal, ah.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
The return of astle. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Martha Radditts of ABC, one thing she is is a
pretty hard bit foreign correspondent, been in a lot of
war zones. And she said, you know, the who knows
what conditions some of these hostages are in or what
stories they're going to tell when they're released, and man,
public opinion could change very quickly. I think that's absolutely true,
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and the Israelis are preparing for a very difficult set
of jobs, given the physical and emotional the situation the
hostages are probably going to be in when they're released.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
We only have a minute. That's too bad.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Have an absolutely great note from Momnonymous about Pete Hegzeth
and the military. She has three sons in the army.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Wow, I want to hear that at some point. Why
don't we squeeze that in next half hour.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I think we should some more confirmation stuff going on today,
but still not scheduled. The big one, I think, at
least from a spectacle standpoint, is the RFK Junior one.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
That one could be very exciting.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, and definitely a big flashing question mark over
whe whether he will get through. But again, we'll let
you know when it comes, and we're bringing you the
highlights of the hearings as they take place.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Been fun so far. We are going to work on Monday.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We briefly discussed taking it the day off as good
as Martin Luther King Junior Day, but it's also inauguration
Day and Trump will become president of the United States
again while we're on the air, and we'll be covering
that live and with our own unique brand of commentary,
which should be a lot of fun. Indeed, wait and
if you missed a segment now or then get it
in the podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Armstrong and Getty Onto men, Armstrong and Getty. It'll hold.
I'm confident. Thank you, Boks. Credit for this, mister President
you or try is that a Joe? Oh? Thank you? So?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Joe Biden finishes with a speech. Last night's walking off.
Who gets credit for the ceasefire agreement as if? I mean,
at that time it seemed like it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Was actually gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I'm not so sure now, but anyway, who gets credit
for the ceasefire agreement?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Israel and Hamas? Is that a joke?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Joe Biden said something similar. Not exactly sure why they're
going with that. Since The New York Times is out today,
Peter Baker big story top of the fold. How amazingly
well two administrations that in theory hate each other, the
Trump administration the Bide administration have been working hand in
glove in the State Department to try to put this together.
(18:11):
It's a cod putting it together. But Joe Biden went
with his ad a joke that doesn't really matter. It's
just odd. I think it's interesting that so almost all
of the sound that we had put together from yesterday's
newscasts and stuff like that about this no longer is
operable because so many things have happened overnight. Israel bomba
the but Jesus out of Gaza, the Gaza leader putting
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out a video saying, Oh God be praised, that was
the greatest day ever. October seventh, May there be many
more we declare victory. That's not a good way to
get the whole ceasefire thing going. Yeah, I would say,
and that was why, you know, yesterday and the day
before I was expressing such skepticism about whether the joy
was appropriate, and not in a cynical way, not in
(18:58):
a mocking way. Certainly, if my loved one was held,
I would be desperate for some sort of solution. But
you are dealing with the devil. This is the snake
you knew was a snake when you picked it up, Hamas.
And they will remember it is only in their interest
to seek peace and on accord of any sort if
it serves their aim of wiping every Jew out of Israel,
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and if they can the face of the earth.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That's what you're dealing with.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh, one other thing to throw in, Secretary of State
Blinken for a handful of more days said, Hamas is reconstituted,
has replaced every member that has been killed. Why did
he come out and say that? Was he trying to
scuttle the deal? I mean, what an injury. I mean,
if it's true, it's true. But one interesting thing to say.
I have really conflicting thoughts about Anthony Blinken from day
(19:46):
to day. I'll tell you this though, if you are
serving at the pleasure of the president and executing his
foreign policy, there will be times that a guy like
Anthony Blinken disagrees with the president and is not getting
his way.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And in this the final.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Week of the administration, you're starting to hear people say,
here's what I really think. By the way, well, having
read the David sangerbook and the Bob Woodward book, with
all the behind the scenes of all this stuff Ukraine
and Israel, Blincoln is way more of a hard ass
than his boss, way more. He's got way more of
a real politic view than his boss does. But anyway,
the quote yesterday was the newspaper reporting Blincoln says new
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Hamas recruits have nearly replaced war losses.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So why did he come out and say.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That, I don't know. Interesting, I don't want to bury
the lead. Just a few facts and then back to
the analysis. Yesterday, Israel Hamas finally agreed to a truce
as part of a six week ceasefire. Israel will withdraw
from parts of Gaza, free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, hundreds
Hamas will receive, will release a few dozen a third
(20:53):
of the hostages. It still holds well, and they're hoping
of the one hundreds thirty three with life's sentences. And
you've got to remember that Sinwar was a hostage, was
a prisoner that was released by Israel in a swamp. Also,
so you release those really bad guys, it can come
back to Hanya. Israel's government must still ratify the agreement.
Officials are treating it as complete. The truth will go
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into effect on Sunday. Hamas will release thirty three hostages
in waves over six weeks. They'll include women, children, older men,
and sicker wounded people. About a hundred hostages remain in Gaza,
although about thirty five are believed to be dead. So
they're releasing a third of the hostages. These fine fellas.
(21:37):
I suppose you have to release them in waves just
to see that Israel's holding up their end of the
bargain by allowing in aid trucks and stopping bombing and all.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Otherwise you've lost every bit of leverage you have that
way that were yes, yeah, absolutely on both sides in
different aspects of it. But I can't help but thing
given the nature of Hamasis we're just discussing and the
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history of this thing. Israel gets a handful of the
hostages back, turns loose some Palestinians, events will transpire, and
it's on again, and this is very short lived.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well, I realize I'm very one sided on this. But
so you got Israel. They're supposed to give back.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Scumbag criminals who have dedicated their lives to killing Israelis.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
They're supposed to give them back.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Hamas is going to give back college kids who were
at a concert, children and old people who had nothing
to do with nothing and never would have harmed a
hair on anybody's head.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But the peace activists.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah, I mean, I don't even understand how that's a
deal in any way. Again, like I said yesterday, the
only way I can see Israel wanting to make this deal, well,
there is a lot of public pressure to get the
hostages back, and also I think they want to get
this off the table because they're planning on a major
attack of Iran. I think couldn Yeah, absolutely, So the
(23:04):
whatever is I gonna jump in?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yes, some really interesting analysis in the Wall Street Journal,
Rory Jones summersade the broad terms agreed to Wednesday after
a year fruitless negotiations are not substantially different from those
that were available to both sides.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Eight months ago. What changed is everything else.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettniel, who spent the first half
of the year fighting with political rivals. He was stuck
in a war of attrition with Hamas, facing ominous threats
from iran sallied militia Lebanon hes Bulah.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Then the tables turned.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Israel killed Hamas leader Yaya Sinwar, battered hes Bulah with
a series of operations, including one of the cleverest ever,
the famous and infamous pagers and walkie talkies Attack Struck
on Iran destroyed most of the country's air defenses. The
Assad regime collapsed in Syria, punching a hole in Iran's
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network of militias.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And Donald J.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Trump, Yeah, and his iven in return to office has
galvanized both sides. Who's the most absolutely true? Who the
latest polling? Who's the most popular politician in Israel right now?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
By far?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Donald Trump not surprising polls higher than anybody. I think
there is a pretty good dividing line among Americans voters
humanity in general. If you had asked the question, are
there times when a leader must act with swift, fair brutality,
(24:40):
and a fair number of human beings would say no,
there's never a reason for that. You can always choose peace,
And a certain number of us who would say, you know,
war is to be avoided at all costs. Loss of
human life, human suffering is to be avoided at virtually
any cost.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But not any cost.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Sometimes you gotta you gotta kill people and hurt people
and break stuff to prevent much more widespread death and destruction.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
It saves lives. It bothers me that I haven't seen
anywhere but Fox.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
The fact that the current leader, Hope Mass put out
a video last night saying, you know, being basically doing
a touchdown dance.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
We won, We won, We defeated you. Who hope we
can do it again? What? Why would you agree with
that guy?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So nobody but Fox has mentioned that it's only being
covered as Net and Yah, who once again scuttling a
peace deal, doesn't like peace warmonger, He likes dead Palestinians.
But to be fair, Fox did their reporting today was
Net and Yahoo. Hamas says they're willing to go forward
with the deal the the way Joe just laid it
out in the agreement. Hamas is still willing to go
(25:49):
forward with it. Net and Yah who is not? And
they and Net Yahho is not said specifically. Why so
fair to point that out. I guess one final thoughts,
which might re buy one more thing, might be because
the right wing of his coalition is threatening to blow
up the government. The people to the right of Net
and Yahoo are saying, no freaking way we're doing a
deal with these monsters will blow up the government. And
(26:10):
you know, the way their government works, the whole thing
could fall with ally that support. So he might just
be kind of pretending to I don't know about this.
I don't trust these guys to keep them happy.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Pop right right.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
The journal also quotes this fellow is the director of
the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chathamhouse Say
think tank in London.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well thought of quote us.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Pressure coming from President Trump directly think has been a
huge motivator, particularly on Prime Minister Net Yahoo.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
But this deal is very fragile. I would agree it helps.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You just said this, It helps to be people be
scared of you. Nobody was scared of Joe Biden. They
knew when push came to shove, your main thing was
going to be don't escalate. But I just shoved you down.
I'm not going to escalate. Yeah, we know you've said
it a thousand times.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
And if you're laying there on the ground, as Joe Biden,
they just shoved you down, your response is going to
be don't. If you're thinking you're shoving me again, don't embarrassing,
freaking embarrassing. Oh, it's incredibly weak and invited aggression and
illegals to come across.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Don't. Here's my message to illegals thinking of coming to
our border. Don't.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
How can any human being be that in a factual
and continue to do and say the same things and
not just be so horrifically mortifyingly embarrassed you would change
your tech.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I don't get that. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
We've all seen parents at the store having that sort
of conversation with their child who continues to do whatever
they want. You better stop or I always want to say,
or what it looks like it looks like they can
do whatever they want. Yeah, but hundreds of millions of
people didn't vote for them to become the parent. I mean, anyway,
a couple more thoughts. Very quickly, the editorial board of
(27:56):
the journal is wondering whether Trump will break from the
Biden's script to end Hamasa's rule of Gaza, because that's
got to happen. Oh boy, otherwise there will be no
lasting piece. It's an idiot fantasy that there could be. Yeah,
you talk about the next stage of this. Who's gonna
run that place? That's a complicated one. One more perspective,
here's a conservative Israeli wrote an editorial. Trump forced net
(28:19):
Yahoo to make a deal with the devil. Some hostages
will come home, but Hamas survives, which means more Israelis
and Americans will die.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So that point of view is absolutely alive.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
And well, you would never know it from the mainstream
liberal media, but yes, that point of view is not
only alive, but it's valid. And then finally this, and
it's a sobering thought. Indeed, Israel has medical teams, psychological teams,
nutritionists all standing by because the hostages that were released
(28:57):
more than a year ago were in tear ruble shape,
many of them physically and psychologically.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And that was a year ago. Hard to imagine.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah, serious emotional mental issues, malnutrition, weight loss, lice, skin diseases,
you name it. I struggle to see why Israel would
want to do this deal other than well, my theory
that they're trying to fixate on attacking Iran and just
to get you know, try to change world public opinion
(29:29):
because Israel does need the world not to hate them
even more.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Doesn't do them any good.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, and I just I think if they can get
some of the hostages back, that's an obvious victory on
a humanitarian level, and then the a fresh new can
of whoop ass will be produced the moment it's needed.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
It's also always pointed out by the people over at Commentary,
which is a Jewish publication' that's the Jewish thing. I mean,
that's the Israeli thing. That's their law. We will do
anything to get a hostage back, right, which is why
they have to give one hundred Palestinians for every Jew.
Frequently in these trades, they value life much more highly
(30:10):
than Hamas, which doesn't value it at all. No, trust me,
I value my dog's life more than the leaders of
Hamas value the lives of any individual Palestinian citizen, because
their death is a pr victory. They as it's said,
the only thing they like better than a dead Jew
is a dead Palestinian.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
See isful? Yeah, which is a horrifying situation.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
You'll be interesting to see how this plays out and
the coverage of it and what Trump does and says.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Maybe even today. So we got a lot more on
the way.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Katie's headlines coming up to stay here. Too much news,
too much news happening.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
There needs to be a limit on the news.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Only three things can happen per day, and only two
of them can be unpleasant.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Right, that needs to be the new rule.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
As I mentioned, we decided we're going to work on
Monday because it's an on garation day and Trump becomes president,
and there'll be a bunch of speech of fying and
pageantry that we can comme out.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
If you enjoyed our play by play of.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
The Carter funeral, you'll enjoy our play by play of
the Trump inauguration.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Regrettable.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Ah, So let's get to today. Can't wait to get started.
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
with Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Katie starting with CNN, Hamas says it is quote committed
to the truce. Several details of the timeline of the
full deal remain unclear.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I would imagine ridiculous. Why wouldn't they be committed to
the truce? Again, I don't see what Israel. What Israel
gets out of it? Of course, so you're gonna get
back a whole bunch of fighters, hardened fighters. You're gonna
get more aid in, and you get to reconstitute so.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
That you can attack anytime you want to. Again, what's
the downside for you?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
The New York post La Mayor Karen Bass failed to
deploy highly trained, one million dollar crisis response team to
help the wildfire victims.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
So he is busy in Ghana, eating, drinking, having a
big time. So many questions around this. I hope they
are followed up upon.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
From ABC. Biden in farewell address warns about the dangers
of unchecked power in the ultra wealthy.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Oh again, you gave George Soros the Medal of Freedman,
the Medal of Freedom last week. But now that there's
a right wing billionaire, that's one of the big.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Crisises in America history. A sterify.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Please come for the the idiocy, as he Jack points out,
stay for the incoherence.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That was something last night. If you didn't see it,
good for you.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
But we'll play a couple of quote unquote highlights just
to give you the flavor of it.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
From the Free Beacon, Rubio breezes through confirmation hearing pledges
to confront Iran's nuclear program and combat the.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
SEFCP no market.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
There are even some Democrats saying this is a good
choice from Trump. So that's as an easy one.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
From Meta's pivot to the right sparks boycotts and a
user exodus.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Did he pivot to the right? Is that what is
going on here? By merely saying.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
We're gonna stop acting the fact that Biden mentioned that
in his speech last night.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh, social media companies no longer fact checking?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Please Wow, It's just I can't even Oh the best
news of the day.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I'm gonna save it for you the best news of
the day next hour. At the beginning of the hour.
From a conservative point of view from.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street thinks US homes are overpriced.
Are saying housing could be overvalued anywhere from ten to
thirty five percent based on how investors are acting.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, I got a friend who's in the home business.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I want to say, you what, but he said in.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Our area, he said, everything needs to come down by
about half wow to be wow. Yeah, there are such
distortions in the market to the fallout from COVID and
the jacking up of the interest rates and everything. Yeah,
it's it's absolutely gonna filter down ten to thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I don't think that's far off. Wow. And I would
guess closer to thirty than ten. I would agree.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
From Popular Science, the Gateway to the Grand Canyon fossilized
bug farts, t rex poop and more ancient artifacts.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
It fossilized the passing of wind.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I don't know, but it's called the pooseum.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
They're trying to because kids like dinosaurs and stuff, so
they're trying to. Oh, I see what they're doing. Yes,
and any reference to Pooh.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
And finally the Babylon bee.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
In effort to improve Senate confirmation hearings, Democrat women replaced
by rabbit hyenas.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Oh wow, Wow, that's that's unkind. We played yesterday the
near cat fight on the floor or the house between
Nancy Mason what's her face? From Texas who almost fought
the mergery Tale of Green does Joe Biden think that
liberal fact checking is real? Like, it's not just check facts. Okay,
(35:14):
we got a lot more to get to the senile.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's true, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Live from Studio C see you signor it is a
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Armstrong and Getting communications compound here on Little Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We're under the tutelage of our general managers.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The hostages, not the sausages, and not Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
OI say that speech last night.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I tried to take one for the team, and I just,
I just I tried what a.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I didn't even consider watching that we would be big
on the return of the sausages today. Yeah, I assume
the President looked and sounded like an old man. But
the content I thought was damned interesting. I know you're
really into beating up old people with dementia.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I uh, I was interested in some of the content.
So I do want to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm worried about my own brain, got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So let Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Lost badly twice in chess to my son last night,
like badly, like.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And you were bringing it. I assume I was trying.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I have to try now to to beat him, and uh,
and I lost badly. Like I told him, I said,
this is the worst defeat I've ever had in chests
in my life. And I've played thousands.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Of games of chess. Chest. You know, Michael, you have
influenced me.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I was texting somebody about chess yesterday and I accidentally
texted Chest. I thought, that's Michael, that's Michael. Stop Michael anyway.
And then, just like this morning, I get to the
building to take my time, I leisurely time walk into
the car. I'd been sitting in my car listening to
news stuff like that. I get it there. I don't
have my key things, so I gotta go all the
way back to my car and I'm barely gonna make
it because i just can't remember stuff. And when I'm
(02:15):
playing chess and I'm sitting there and I just how
did you do that?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So I think I'm going down the road of Joe Biden. Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Wow, I certainly hope not. That's going to be inconvenient
for business, not to mention, you know, maybe maybe it'll
be hilarious though. Yeah, yeah, I had a moment like
that the other night. But then I realized it was
because I was just I was preoccupied.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I was focused on other things.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Although it involved an oven in this case, not like
turning it on or extending the time or so it
stayed on. But I thought, wow, that's the flip side
of forgetting to turn it off, which is like a
senior moment thing, right, like a worry about should dad
be in managed care? He left the oven on? Blah blah,
(03:00):
he should dad own a stove? Is that where you
are now?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, anyway, that's a tough one.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I was in the midst of complicated negotiations and that
was thinking of other things.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, And I assumed Joe Biden sounded like that last night.
But a couple of the.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Things he said are outrageous, just freaking outrageous.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It was slowed paste, mumbly and stumbly, full of utter fictions, cliches,
talking points and.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What the hell's it was just it was a mess.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, we are into a new era to where this
sort of thing happens, So I don't think it's gonna
land in such a way that it gets that much
attention or whatever, because we're just.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Into a new era.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
People say crazys all the time, even presidents. But if
you went back twenty years, if a George W. Bush
or a Bill Clinton had given a farewell speech and said,
I have a warning for America. We are coming under
the hold of an oligarchy that will make it impossible
for people on the bottom to rise up.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I mean, that would have been.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Earth shattering, right if the outgoing president had said, we're
falling under the fold of an oligarchy.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Because Elon Musk tweets a lot in favor of things
Trump does, We're now an oligarchy.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
He gave the Metal of Freedom to George Sorows last week,
who was allowed to uh Marxist prosecutors to run our
biggest cities.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That was fine.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But now that it's a billionaire on the other side,
you have to give a speech about how America is over.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's over. I know, I know, I was gonna say.
My responses are A, No, we're not. It might be.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That's the response to that, No we're not, and B
what were you talking about?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
God stop it?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, And the other reason, obviously not much reaction is
coming forth is that he is completely irrelevant and it's sad,
and it's just it is so what's done. It is
your last day of your senior class at high school,
presuming you're the sort who looks forward not back. Mostly
it's just and some teachers saying, you know, your desk
(05:09):
is a little messy, or like what shut up? So, yeah,
Biden's what Biden has to say is practically relevant. I
have enjoyed very much a piece of reporting on how
hurt Kamala Harris is that Joe Biden's walking around saying
he could have beaten Trump, not because it's in any
(05:29):
way irrelevant, but because it's just funny.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Well it's not true. That not true also, but oh.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's the delusions of the rambling old brattle trap.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, I've been in this, We've all been in the
situation before.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I'm sure Kamala Harris would like to say, Look, dude,
I mean, it's one thing you go around saying that,
and it's annoying and you don't need to say it,
and obviously it makes me look bad, but the fact.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That it's so not true, it's just not true.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Specifically is going around saying, you know, the poles I
saw I could have beaten him. She's gotta want to
sit him down and say, dude, come on, why do
you think Nancy Pelosi, you're best friend of fifty years,
that you've been talking about, cut your legs off at
the knees. Jill Biden gave an interview to the Washington
(06:14):
Post yesterday. The details came out in which she said
she's very disappointed in what Nancy Pelosi did well and
the other things Joe's running around saying is Look, the
only reason I dropped out was to keep the party
from being divided. I could have won. Wow, Hey, did
you set a timer when you put the meat in
(06:36):
the toaster oven? Grandpa Joe, you need to set a timer.
You need one of those pillcases. It keeps track of
have you taken your pill yet today?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Hey? I have those, so take it easy there. Boy.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
He needs he needs that for a life. I remember
when I had cancer. I was taken twenty one pills
a day and a long sheet of I had to
check gough. There's no way I could keep drag of
what I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh yeah, plus that fall down. I rattled like a Morocca.
It's terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's what I call the don't have a heart attack
or stroke variety pack and it's working so far. I
don't take a pill a week, thank god. Oh I
do half a dozen in the morning. So we got
lots to talk about. And then there's the Israel Israel
Hamas situation that is being reported entirely one direction by
most of the media, and one nugget on Fox that
I hadn't seen anywhere else that would have colored my
(07:29):
view of the story.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Today.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The current acting leader of Hamas put out a video
yesterday saying we won.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
October seventh was a glorious day.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We won, God willing there will be many more October sevenths.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yes yesterday he put that out.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Now, NPR and MSNBC and the other media that I
took in today is reporting Benjamin nettan Yahoo as usual
scuttling a piece deal. Doesn't want peace, wants to stay
in power. It's all about him, not even mentioning the
Hamas side of the negotiation, in which, for one thing,
they're demanding thirty three prisoners with life sentences to be
(08:13):
released that are almost certainly dedicated have dedicated their lives
to killing Israelis, and many many more prisoners to be released.
Who knows what the situation is with the prisoner, with
the hostages. They are going to give back, and your
leader just said, ah Man, October seventh was the greatest
day of my life. That was fantastic. I hope we
can do it again sometime. My final note on this,
and there's a great deal more to be said. Some
(08:35):
solid analysis I've come across is that I watched two
videos within an hour of each other last night, and
they were utterly indistinguishable. They were the same video. The
first one was the celebratory chanting and jumping up and
down and cheering in the streets at the announcement of
the ceasefire in Gaza, And the other video I watched
was the chanting and cheering valuah Bar and the beating
(08:57):
of the corpses and the beatings of the live hostages
as they were taken on October seventh. Not a small
band of militants, the people of Gaza doing this, and
they participated wholesale in the taking, the torturing, the raping,
and the holding of the hostages. Yeah boy, you talk
(09:17):
about an underreported, completely not reported aspect of this story.
The people of Gaza loved this. They thought it was awesome,
A hell of a lot of them. And you know
what the way geopolitics works, if there's a minority that
hated it, I feel terrible for them.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's awful. It's awful.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
They live under a terrorist, Islamist, monstrous regime.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
It's awful.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, well, that's an interesting story. We've got a lot
more on all of those coming up. Let's start the
show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this
at his Thursday January sixteenth, the or twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Let's begin then, officially, according to the FCC rules and regulations,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Mark, I guess.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Today after I gave an opportunity to study overnight.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So can you tell me and this committee what the
citizenship cause of the fourteenth Amendment? Says Senator. I'm here
to answer your questions. I'm not here to do your
homework and study for you.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Vam Bondi John with Senator Alex Padilla. Ridiculous. She is
going to be confirmed though, that's all the news. No,
there's not really a hint of the fact that she's
not going to make it through. She will be your
new attorney general, starting very very soon.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
How does she also?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
According to the Internet, and I think in this case
is fairly accurate, own Adam Schiff. And then he fell
sound asleep afterward in the hearing. That's how a ghast
he is at Trump's awful nominees. Yeah, he was slumbering
like a baby seeing video.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
How's mailbag, loook? Did you ay tell me it's it's.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
It's quite good. Yeah, it's got some real wit and wisdom.
So you could have told me, I would have forgotten.
I left my queen right there. I mean, it was
obvious it was gonna get taken, and I didn't even see.
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It's just embarrassing. So here's our text line.
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I'm excited about some NFL playoff football.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Weekend this weekend. There's some good games to me, very exciting.
I hate those Ravens. That's gonna be the game, man.
It's basically an even line. Oh yeah yeah, A couple
of great dynamic mobile quarterbacks, awesome defenses.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Can't wait.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I hate to come off as self congratulatory. But you know,
if you don't blow your horn, who else will get
your mouth off my horn?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I've said.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The reaction to well, this is a statement of fact.
The reaction to yesterday's one More Thing podcast, which never airs,
it just is a podcast. Here's reaction new yesterday's podcast
is unprecedented. Yes, here's an interesting thing. I couldn't, for
one hundred dollars tell you what we talked about yesterday.
(12:12):
I have no really need to mind her. I'd be
willing to chip in because of my own interest in
you not.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I've always been that once the show's over, it just
it's done.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I just I don't remember saying anything but yeah, it's
always a good head to do with bread and uh
oh yeah cat yeah, yeah, particular term.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah that was a good one. Yes.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Anyway, if you subscribe to I'm Strong and getting on demand,
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We're including it these days. Anyway, here's your freedom loving
quote of the day.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Interestingly, my my beloved daughter de Landy May little d
who is at law school, factored into the podcast yesterday
and she sent this freedom loving quote she thought I
would enjoy. It is from the great John Locke, for
he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood and correct
the baseness of human nature. Need read but the history
(13:03):
of this or any other age to be convinced of
the contrary, which is just the flip side of the
form of the famous Lord acton quote. Power tends to corrupt,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely right, undeniable. So you've got
to not worship politicians. Keep an eye on them. Not
so trustworthy housekeeper.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You know, they got to be watched every second. Politicians
are a not trustworthy housekeeper. I've never heard that one before.
Was that? What's metaphorical? It's somebody you cannot trust. You
mustn't even if you like them.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Keep half an eye on them. Why because power corrupts.
Maybe they weren't corrupt at when you voted for them,
but it's a tendency.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
They're human. If men were angels, we would not need government.
I don't like this whole bougie. Keep your eye on
your housekeeper. It's a matter of her mailbag.
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Let's see where we're ah, Yes, drop his note mail
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She's looking at the website. We actually just put that
out on our.
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Social media Twitter and Facebook, but we will post it
at Armstrong a Getty dot com. I can say it
continues to be the talk of my household, as my
high schoolers really bothered how I take my coat off
like a like a chick, whereas both Michael and I
take off our coats in a manner that's I mean
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(14:45):
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How about this surefire quick fix for the wildfires.
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Writes Chris.
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Fastest way to clean up Ellie County would be a
visit from President she and then he sent along that
headline from shijiin Ping's visit to San Francisco, in which
smiling Gavin and the city fathers and mothers who would
not clean up the disgusting streets for the people who
lived there clean them up for shijiin Ping, their Kami overlord.
(15:16):
Although they've done a lot better lately, and we'll do
better now with the new moderate mayor. Thank you, Chris,
good point. Ricky the Bricky says, good morning, gentlemen. I
don't know about this ceasefire agreement. I've heard a lot
of talk about several somewhat important aspects, but not one
word about returning the sausages hashtag no deal, ah.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
The return of astle. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Martha Radditts of ABC, one thing she is is a
pretty hard bit foreign correspondent, been in a lot of
war zones. And she said, you know, the who knows
what conditions some of these hostages are in or what
stories they're going to tell when they're released, and man,
public opinion could change very quickly. I think that's absolutely true,
(16:01):
and the Israelis are preparing for a very difficult set
of jobs, given the physical and emotional the situation the
hostages are probably going to be in when they're released.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
We only have a minute. That's too bad.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Have an absolutely great note from Momnonymous about Pete Hegzeth
and the military. She has three sons in the army.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Wow, I want to hear that at some point. Why
don't we squeeze that in next half hour.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I think we should some more confirmation stuff going on today,
but still not scheduled. The big one, I think, at
least from a spectacle standpoint, is the RFK Junior one.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
That one could be very exciting.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, and definitely a big flashing question mark over
whe whether he will get through. But again, we'll let
you know when it comes, and we're bringing you the
highlights of the hearings as they take place.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Been fun so far. We are going to work on Monday.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We briefly discussed taking it the day off as good
as Martin Luther King Junior Day, but it's also inauguration
Day and Trump will become president of the United States
again while we're on the air, and we'll be covering
that live and with our own unique brand of commentary,
which should be a lot of fun. Indeed, wait and
if you missed a segment now or then get it
in the podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Armstrong and Getty Onto men, Armstrong and Getty. It'll hold.
I'm confident. Thank you, Boks. Credit for this, mister President
you or try is that a Joe? Oh? Thank you? So?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Joe Biden finishes with a speech. Last night's walking off.
Who gets credit for the ceasefire agreement as if? I mean,
at that time it seemed like it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Was actually gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I'm not so sure now, but anyway, who gets credit
for the ceasefire agreement?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Israel and Hamas? Is that a joke?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Joe Biden said something similar. Not exactly sure why they're
going with that. Since The New York Times is out today,
Peter Baker big story top of the fold. How amazingly
well two administrations that in theory hate each other, the
Trump administration the Bide administration have been working hand in
glove in the State Department to try to put this together.
(18:11):
It's a cod putting it together. But Joe Biden went
with his ad a joke that doesn't really matter. It's
just odd. I think it's interesting that so almost all
of the sound that we had put together from yesterday's
newscasts and stuff like that about this no longer is
operable because so many things have happened overnight. Israel bomba
the but Jesus out of Gaza, the Gaza leader putting
(18:35):
out a video saying, Oh God be praised, that was
the greatest day ever. October seventh, May there be many
more we declare victory. That's not a good way to
get the whole ceasefire thing going. Yeah, I would say,
and that was why, you know, yesterday and the day
before I was expressing such skepticism about whether the joy
was appropriate, and not in a cynical way, not in
(18:58):
a mocking way. Certainly, if my loved one was held,
I would be desperate for some sort of solution. But
you are dealing with the devil. This is the snake
you knew was a snake when you picked it up, Hamas.
And they will remember it is only in their interest
to seek peace and on accord of any sort if
it serves their aim of wiping every Jew out of Israel,
(19:20):
and if they can the face of the earth.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That's what you're dealing with.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh, one other thing to throw in, Secretary of State
Blinken for a handful of more days said, Hamas is reconstituted,
has replaced every member that has been killed. Why did
he come out and say that? Was he trying to
scuttle the deal? I mean, what an injury. I mean,
if it's true, it's true. But one interesting thing to say.
I have really conflicting thoughts about Anthony Blinken from day
(19:46):
to day. I'll tell you this though, if you are
serving at the pleasure of the president and executing his
foreign policy, there will be times that a guy like
Anthony Blinken disagrees with the president and is not getting
his way.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And in this the final.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Week of the administration, you're starting to hear people say,
here's what I really think. By the way, well, having
read the David sangerbook and the Bob Woodward book, with
all the behind the scenes of all this stuff Ukraine
and Israel, Blincoln is way more of a hard ass
than his boss, way more. He's got way more of
a real politic view than his boss does. But anyway,
the quote yesterday was the newspaper reporting Blincoln says new
(20:26):
Hamas recruits have nearly replaced war losses.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So why did he come out and say.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That, I don't know. Interesting, I don't want to bury
the lead. Just a few facts and then back to
the analysis. Yesterday, Israel Hamas finally agreed to a truce
as part of a six week ceasefire. Israel will withdraw
from parts of Gaza, free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, hundreds
Hamas will receive, will release a few dozen a third
(20:53):
of the hostages. It still holds well, and they're hoping
of the one hundreds thirty three with life's sentences. And
you've got to remember that Sinwar was a hostage, was
a prisoner that was released by Israel in a swamp. Also,
so you release those really bad guys, it can come
back to Hanya. Israel's government must still ratify the agreement.
Officials are treating it as complete. The truth will go
(21:16):
into effect on Sunday. Hamas will release thirty three hostages
in waves over six weeks. They'll include women, children, older men,
and sicker wounded people. About a hundred hostages remain in Gaza,
although about thirty five are believed to be dead. So
they're releasing a third of the hostages. These fine fellas.
(21:37):
I suppose you have to release them in waves just
to see that Israel's holding up their end of the
bargain by allowing in aid trucks and stopping bombing and all.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Otherwise you've lost every bit of leverage you have that
way that were yes, yeah, absolutely on both sides in
different aspects of it. But I can't help but thing
given the nature of Hamasis we're just discussing and the
(22:07):
history of this thing. Israel gets a handful of the
hostages back, turns loose some Palestinians, events will transpire, and
it's on again, and this is very short lived.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well, I realize I'm very one sided on this. But
so you got Israel. They're supposed to give back.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Scumbag criminals who have dedicated their lives to killing Israelis.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
They're supposed to give them back.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Hamas is going to give back college kids who were
at a concert, children and old people who had nothing
to do with nothing and never would have harmed a
hair on anybody's head.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But the peace activists.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah, I mean, I don't even understand how that's a
deal in any way. Again, like I said yesterday, the
only way I can see Israel wanting to make this deal, well,
there is a lot of public pressure to get the
hostages back, and also I think they want to get
this off the table because they're planning on a major
attack of Iran. I think couldn Yeah, absolutely, So the
(23:04):
whatever is I gonna jump in?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yes, some really interesting analysis in the Wall Street Journal,
Rory Jones summersade the broad terms agreed to Wednesday after
a year fruitless negotiations are not substantially different from those
that were available to both sides.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Eight months ago. What changed is everything else.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettniel, who spent the first half
of the year fighting with political rivals. He was stuck
in a war of attrition with Hamas, facing ominous threats
from iran sallied militia Lebanon hes Bulah.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Then the tables turned.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Israel killed Hamas leader Yaya Sinwar, battered hes Bulah with
a series of operations, including one of the cleverest ever,
the famous and infamous pagers and walkie talkies Attack Struck
on Iran destroyed most of the country's air defenses. The
Assad regime collapsed in Syria, punching a hole in Iran's
(23:57):
network of militias.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And Donald J.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Trump, Yeah, and his iven in return to office has
galvanized both sides. Who's the most absolutely true? Who the
latest polling? Who's the most popular politician in Israel right now?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
By far?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Donald Trump not surprising polls higher than anybody. I think
there is a pretty good dividing line among Americans voters
humanity in general. If you had asked the question, are
there times when a leader must act with swift, fair brutality,
(24:40):
and a fair number of human beings would say no,
there's never a reason for that. You can always choose peace,
And a certain number of us who would say, you know,
war is to be avoided at all costs. Loss of
human life, human suffering is to be avoided at virtually
any cost.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But not any cost.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Sometimes you gotta you gotta kill people and hurt people
and break stuff to prevent much more widespread death and destruction.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
It saves lives. It bothers me that I haven't seen
anywhere but Fox.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
The fact that the current leader, Hope Mass put out
a video last night saying, you know, being basically doing
a touchdown dance.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
We won, We won, We defeated you. Who hope we
can do it again? What? Why would you agree with
that guy?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So nobody but Fox has mentioned that it's only being
covered as Net and Yah, who once again scuttling a
peace deal, doesn't like peace warmonger, He likes dead Palestinians.
But to be fair, Fox did their reporting today was
Net and Yahoo. Hamas says they're willing to go forward
with the deal the the way Joe just laid it
out in the agreement. Hamas is still willing to go
(25:49):
forward with it. Net and Yah who is not? And
they and Net Yahho is not said specifically. Why so
fair to point that out. I guess one final thoughts,
which might re buy one more thing, might be because
the right wing of his coalition is threatening to blow
up the government. The people to the right of Net
and Yahoo are saying, no freaking way we're doing a
deal with these monsters will blow up the government. And
(26:10):
you know, the way their government works, the whole thing
could fall with ally that support. So he might just
be kind of pretending to I don't know about this.
I don't trust these guys to keep them happy.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Pop right right.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
The journal also quotes this fellow is the director of
the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chathamhouse Say
think tank in London.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well thought of quote us.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Pressure coming from President Trump directly think has been a
huge motivator, particularly on Prime Minister Net Yahoo.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
But this deal is very fragile. I would agree it helps.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You just said this, It helps to be people be
scared of you. Nobody was scared of Joe Biden. They
knew when push came to shove, your main thing was
going to be don't escalate. But I just shoved you down.
I'm not going to escalate. Yeah, we know you've said
it a thousand times.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
And if you're laying there on the ground, as Joe Biden,
they just shoved you down, your response is going to
be don't. If you're thinking you're shoving me again, don't embarrassing,
freaking embarrassing. Oh, it's incredibly weak and invited aggression and
illegals to come across.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Don't. Here's my message to illegals thinking of coming to
our border. Don't.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
How can any human being be that in a factual
and continue to do and say the same things and
not just be so horrifically mortifyingly embarrassed you would change
your tech.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I don't get that. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
We've all seen parents at the store having that sort
of conversation with their child who continues to do whatever
they want. You better stop or I always want to say,
or what it looks like it looks like they can
do whatever they want. Yeah, but hundreds of millions of
people didn't vote for them to become the parent. I mean, anyway,
a couple more thoughts. Very quickly, the editorial board of
(27:56):
the journal is wondering whether Trump will break from the
Biden's script to end Hamasa's rule of Gaza, because that's
got to happen. Oh boy, otherwise there will be no
lasting piece. It's an idiot fantasy that there could be. Yeah,
you talk about the next stage of this. Who's gonna
run that place? That's a complicated one. One more perspective,
here's a conservative Israeli wrote an editorial. Trump forced net
(28:19):
Yahoo to make a deal with the devil. Some hostages
will come home, but Hamas survives, which means more Israelis
and Americans will die.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So that point of view is absolutely alive.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
And well, you would never know it from the mainstream
liberal media, but yes, that point of view is not
only alive, but it's valid. And then finally this, and
it's a sobering thought. Indeed, Israel has medical teams, psychological teams,
nutritionists all standing by because the hostages that were released
(28:57):
more than a year ago were in tear ruble shape,
many of them physically and psychologically.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And that was a year ago. Hard to imagine.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah, serious emotional mental issues, malnutrition, weight loss, lice, skin diseases,
you name it. I struggle to see why Israel would
want to do this deal other than well, my theory
that they're trying to fixate on attacking Iran and just
to get you know, try to change world public opinion
(29:29):
because Israel does need the world not to hate them
even more.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Doesn't do them any good.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, and I just I think if they can get
some of the hostages back, that's an obvious victory on
a humanitarian level, and then the a fresh new can
of whoop ass will be produced the moment it's needed.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
It's also always pointed out by the people over at Commentary,
which is a Jewish publication' that's the Jewish thing. I mean,
that's the Israeli thing. That's their law. We will do
anything to get a hostage back, right, which is why
they have to give one hundred Palestinians for every Jew.
Frequently in these trades, they value life much more highly
(30:10):
than Hamas, which doesn't value it at all. No, trust me,
I value my dog's life more than the leaders of
Hamas value the lives of any individual Palestinian citizen, because
their death is a pr victory. They as it's said,
the only thing they like better than a dead Jew
is a dead Palestinian.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
See isful? Yeah, which is a horrifying situation.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
You'll be interesting to see how this plays out and
the coverage of it and what Trump does and says.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Maybe even today. So we got a lot more on
the way.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Katie's headlines coming up to stay here. Too much news,
too much news happening.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
There needs to be a limit on the news.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Only three things can happen per day, and only two
of them can be unpleasant.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Right, that needs to be the new rule.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
As I mentioned, we decided we're going to work on
Monday because it's an on garation day and Trump becomes president,
and there'll be a bunch of speech of fying and
pageantry that we can comme out.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
If you enjoyed our play by play of.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
The Carter funeral, you'll enjoy our play by play of
the Trump inauguration.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Regrettable.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Ah, So let's get to today. Can't wait to get started.
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
with Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Katie starting with CNN, Hamas says it is quote committed
to the truce. Several details of the timeline of the
full deal remain unclear.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I would imagine ridiculous. Why wouldn't they be committed to
the truce? Again, I don't see what Israel. What Israel
gets out of it? Of course, so you're gonna get
back a whole bunch of fighters, hardened fighters. You're gonna
get more aid in, and you get to reconstitute so.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
That you can attack anytime you want to. Again, what's
the downside for you?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
The New York post La Mayor Karen Bass failed to
deploy highly trained, one million dollar crisis response team to
help the wildfire victims.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
So he is busy in Ghana, eating, drinking, having a
big time. So many questions around this. I hope they
are followed up upon.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
From ABC. Biden in farewell address warns about the dangers
of unchecked power in the ultra wealthy.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Oh again, you gave George Soros the Medal of Freedman,
the Medal of Freedom last week. But now that there's
a right wing billionaire, that's one of the big.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Crisises in America history. A sterify.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Please come for the the idiocy, as he Jack points out,
stay for the incoherence.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That was something last night. If you didn't see it,
good for you.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
But we'll play a couple of quote unquote highlights just
to give you the flavor of it.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
From the Free Beacon, Rubio breezes through confirmation hearing pledges
to confront Iran's nuclear program and combat the.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
SEFCP no market.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
There are even some Democrats saying this is a good
choice from Trump. So that's as an easy one.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
From Meta's pivot to the right sparks boycotts and a
user exodus.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Did he pivot to the right? Is that what is
going on here? By merely saying.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
We're gonna stop acting the fact that Biden mentioned that
in his speech last night.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh, social media companies no longer fact checking?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Please Wow, It's just I can't even Oh the best
news of the day.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I'm gonna save it for you the best news of
the day next hour. At the beginning of the hour.
From a conservative point of view from.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street thinks US homes are overpriced.
Are saying housing could be overvalued anywhere from ten to
thirty five percent based on how investors are acting.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, I got a friend who's in the home business.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I want to say, you what, but he said in.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Our area, he said, everything needs to come down by
about half wow to be wow. Yeah, there are such
distortions in the market to the fallout from COVID and
the jacking up of the interest rates and everything. Yeah,
it's it's absolutely gonna filter down ten to thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I don't think that's far off. Wow. And I would
guess closer to thirty than ten. I would agree.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
From Popular Science, the Gateway to the Grand Canyon fossilized
bug farts, t rex poop and more ancient artifacts.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
It fossilized the passing of wind.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I don't know, but it's called the pooseum.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
They're trying to because kids like dinosaurs and stuff, so
they're trying to. Oh, I see what they're doing. Yes,
and any reference to Pooh.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
And finally the Babylon bee.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
In effort to improve Senate confirmation hearings, Democrat women replaced
by rabbit hyenas.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Oh wow, Wow, that's that's unkind. We played yesterday the
near cat fight on the floor or the house between
Nancy Mason what's her face? From Texas who almost fought
the mergery Tale of Green does Joe Biden think that
liberal fact checking is real? Like, it's not just check facts. Okay,
(35:14):
we got a lot more to get to the senile.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
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