December 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Jack has a cold, CDL mills & Venezuela
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Trump's MRI & war crime with Venezuelan drug boat strike?
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And he.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Arms Wrong get it live the from the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Ce see signor a dimly let room deep within the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound of Hey,
y'all Today Tuesday, we're under the Tutelgitar general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The second shot.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The Venezuelan drug vote controversy.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So is your take that they're trying to hang out
to dry that other dude? There are a couple of
different possibilities. The facts are not known at this point.
And by the way, we received a number of really
interesting emails on the topic of many contrasting with each other. Yeah. Yeah,
(01:11):
the facts are in doubt at this point. So expressing
a strong opinion I think is foolish. Of course, we
live in foolish times. We certainly do well.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It seems to me that somebody could take more of
a role of stepping forward and clearing this thing up
in the Defense Department, couldn't they?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah? Are the White House? Yeah? Absolutely? I will tell
you this as a bullsser, do not bless me, as
the old saying goes. The denials by the White House
have been very loyally. They have not been as direct
as they would be if they could be direct, saying no,
(01:51):
that didn't happen. They've said the mission, which was approved
by the Legal Department, is righteous to keep America free
from drugs. But that's not what's being asked right soon
else we'll see. On the other hand, the usual suspects
are lining up to make hay in the usual ways,
turning this into an entirely partisan matter of make it
(02:13):
scoring points and so you know, for instance, and I don't.
I don't care about this a lot, but at least
some of our listeners are like, guys, why are you
siding with the Democrats who are always trying to bring
Trump down? And the answers were not like usual, We're
just trying to figure out what's actually happening. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
About that at all when I think about a story,
whether it's helps Trump hurts Trump. I just want to
know what happened, right, Yep, your hair. It's a nod method,
but we're gonna stick with it. Here's the most interesting
thing I've heard today. First of all, I have a cold.
Every time I fly, I catch a cold. I remember
during COVID they told us flying is like the safest
(02:54):
thing you can do in terms of aggressively filtered jack,
How come every time I fly catch a cold? Anyway,
I think that airports are teeming with filter. It might
be the airport, not the plane, of course. Then that
negates what they said though, flying is not a problem
because the airplane well, okay, maybe the airplanes do recycle
the air and filtered out. But the fact that we're
(03:14):
all jammed together in that little walkway getting on and
off or or wherever else in the airport, if we
get sick, filthy filthy seats there in the terminally, it
doesn't really make fly private like me. Why don't you,
in a related story, let them eat gay care. It
doesn't really make any difference whether when I fly I
get sick on the plane or waiting in the line
(03:35):
to get on the plane, does it?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, not, really, It's a distinction without a difference exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Anyway, here's the most interesting thing I've heard today, and
we're gonna hear a clip from a little bit later.
Trump administration has been cracking down on the trucking industry
started in California where they're giving out all kinds of
licenses to illegals, and we've had some horrifying crashes across
the country. Turns out about half half of the trucking
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schools in the entire country, coast to coast, weren't doing
their job or even close to it. Being called CDL mills,
they're just there to stamp licenses and get people through
the door. Probably at the best of the trucking companies,
I don't know who butter and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
If you can fog whatever their word is for mirror,
they will give you a license. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, And at least half of them are going to
be people are going to have their licenses taken back
away because it wasn't a real school they went to,
or they're going to have to be closed down, or
they're gonna have to really get their act together. But
how does something like that happen? And man, does that
lean toward us Libertarians who want to take government out
of these things? Have a private company of some sort
(04:47):
do this?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Right? Could a private company be bribed or not? Good? Sure?
But is it government company more likely to be bad? Yes? Well,
and what's the recourse when when a private company goes
bad or or does well, well, let's stick with the specifics.
Does what the government sanctioned schools which are quasi private
(05:10):
have done. You bring them to their knees, you find
them to death, you put them out of business. If
it's a government agency, what do you do you find
the taxpayers place. It's terrible. Although part of this is
it's just I think it's it's crony capitalism, because I
think a lot of these truck driving schools are private.
But the governments here and there said, look, look we
need lots and lots of drivers. Nobody's gonna pay attention.
(05:33):
These are jobs Americans won't do because they're busy smoking
pot on their parents' basement, sofar or they can't get
a job in their whatever studies program they got a
degree in, right, right, no kidding, You know, we should
probably every single day, I don't know, maybe kickoff hour
two of the show of with just reminding you the
(05:55):
labor participation rate among healthy working age males is thet
it's ever been, and then just go on with whatever
else we're going to talk about, right, because that shades
so many issues we talked about. Yeah, I was about to,
and it might fit in with this.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So, first of all, on that trucking school thing, if
it turns out most of them are private, obviously, that
damages my libertarian argument. So where is the breakdown there? Well,
this state still has to give them the test, though,
and there had to be a lot of people knowing
that they were not doing their job. I mean, sure,
what I mean thousands of people across the country have
(06:35):
to be aware that these schools are just fake basically.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, and then they get guys who can't pass the
tests who are inexplicably given a license by the government.
So it's the sort of public private partnerships that made
America what it is today. Jack. Here's the other interesting
thing I heard today. There is a poll.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Out, one of many negative economic polls, where people are
worried about their healthcare, in particular that they can't afford it,
and the blah blah blah. How do all those numbers
that we had before we went on vacation and including today,
where people are laid on their car payments more than
they've been in decades, their credit card debt is maxed out,
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they're more worried about being able to afford prescriptions, blah
blah blah blah blah, they feel horrible about their personal
financial situation. And then if those numbers out of Black
Friday are true, but we spent nine percent more.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
On shopping, what the heck is going on there? Well,
there are a number of different things that could be
going on. Maybe people still perceive the Black Friday is
the day for super bargains, and so they've been keeping
their powder dry until that day they dumped all their
money into it, and now you're going to see a
drop off before and after. I don't know. That's could be.
(07:45):
It could be.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We had a stat not that long ago that the
top we'll forget what it was, twenty percent of income
earners were doing like half of the consumer spending. So
maybe the people with and he just spent like insane
people to make up for other people cutting back. But
(08:07):
none of that fits together, the idea that people are
missing car payments, house payments, can't afford the prescriptions, and
are spending more for Christmas, and there's something funky, or
we're just completely out of control.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I mean, we might just be living like.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The government were broke and we're going to come up
with a new program. It'd be something if the government,
pad the federal government passed some sort of.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Bail out. This would be the next step of pandering
to the citizens. We will bail you out of your
personal debt, and then that drove the federal government into
they had to default.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That would be kind of a perfect It would be
like a Shakespearean ending, very Hamlet ending exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, December second,
known as my mom's birthday. She is just a couple
of weeks younger than Joe Biden. Joe Biden turned eighty
three couple weeks ago. Now my mom is eighty three,
caught up with much better mentally and physically than Joe Biden.
I was just with her. We had a birthday cake
and everything there twenty twenty five. We are armstrong in
getting we approve of this program. We had lemon bars
for my daddy loves lemon bars. What's not to like?
(09:18):
It is one of your top tier cookie or cookie
adjacent desserts at my mom and dad's house. So you
have to sit on the underneath this banner that says
happy birthday. And my mom, because this is the way
she is, has been using this same cardboard banner since
nineteen sixty six for my one year birthday, and everybody's
(09:39):
birthday has the same. She takes it down, she folds
it up, she puts it in a drawer, then she
unfolds it, she gets it out for everybody's birthday and
they have to sit on her knee bit with the
cake for fifty nine years.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Tell you what, whoever made that banner back in the day.
That was amerk and quality.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, exactly, No cheap, Chinese, crappy happy birthday banner is
going to last for fifty some years years.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Lays all right, er, have we begun. Let's begin the
show officially now according to FCC Rules of Rags. Here
we go at.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Mark and the word of the year is rage bait.
And what's so interesting is it only became a word
back in two thousand and two. Now, what is an
example of rage bait? It might be I'll offer this
sentence for you. I hate Santa. That is that I
am putting out something into the public sphere with the
idea of capturing engagement through anger. Therefore, I say something
(10:31):
that is provocative with the mere idea that it's going
to generate.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, that's pretty good. That's a pretty good example too.
That what's a good one.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's a great example. I hate Santa Christmas sucks your daughter?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Are you kidding you? It's the traditions ally al right,
kind of exhausted by even thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I know, rage unplug the internet word of the year. Okay,
we got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of news.
I hope you can stay.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Here from Yo yo yo.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So we attack in Venezuela or what is that? What's
gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Huh. I'm as mystified as I've ever been.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
He actually told Maduro on the phone the other day,
you gotta get out, you and your family.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You gotta get out right now. Huh, Maduro said, Hamden hawd.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I would like to have heard that hemming and hawing.
Do you mean for the afternoon, mister president?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
No, no, for good? But I live here, boy, I
wonder what was said? All right, let's figure out who's
reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie, Oh,
we got this text. It's a classic.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You don't need a parachute to go skydiving. You just
need a parachute to go skydiving twice.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Very good, Very good. That's a that's a lesson for life, right, do.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
A big things?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Where are your headlines? I know, I know you're sick,
so I appreciate you bringing the joke. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
We have three regarding the Venezuela situation. One NBC white
House confirmed second September second strike on alleged drug boat CNN.
Trump struggles with Venezuelan dilemma as Maduro digs in and
Storm builds it home over potential war crime and the
hill pressure grows on headset amid boat strike fallout.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, where's the damn video? I mean, we could solve
this whole thing pretty quickly. Where's the video? It exists,
Just release it and let's get to the bottom of
it and let the chips fall where they.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
May, right.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I wonder if people different people look at the video
and see different things though, it would certainly help it
we get us closer.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
From ABC, white House is quote very optimistic ahead of
Russia US meeting on ending the Ukraine War.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, man, I took in a bunch of information on
that yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Know what I think of that.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The reporting on that is all over the place, and
I'm not sure what's true and what's not. Did Russia
dictate the terms of this thing? Or was that a
misreporting that whole week before we went on vacation.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I don't know. More on that later.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
From the ap Net and Yahoo requests a pardon to
end his ongoing corruption trial in Israel.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That gonna be something if he ends up going to jail. Wow.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
From the Wall Street Journal. Commercial real estate is getting
too cheap to ignore.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's fallen so much that people are starting to think, Hell,
maybe I jump in. Well yeah, Well, I'm just amazed.
Everywhere you go there are so many empty storefronts with signs,
you know, some sort of commercial real estate sign.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
There's so much space all over the place. Yeah, in
inner City, He's obviously in their commercial districts. It's even worse.
New York is actually doing some really cool stuff with
converting those office buildings into residential, which is a good trend,
I think.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
From the New York Post, truck driver charged with killing
newlyweds in horror crash is an illegal immigrant given license
in Newsom's California.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, That's what we were just talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, somebody's got to pay a price for giving out
those licenses to people who shouldn't be driving.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I mean, that is outrageous.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
From the Washington Post, flesh eating worm in Mexico is
squeezing the US beef supply.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Worms are flesh to beef. H gross? How do I
know if I got this my flesh is being eaten away?
Is that the first sign? That is the main.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
All?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Right, study fines one in three Americans have no, oh idea,
what a healthy plate.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Of food looks like? What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
They're saying that Americans are protein obsessed and thinking that
we can get all of our nutrients from stacking up
on protein and we ignore other vital ones.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
One in three Americans doesn't know what a healthy plate
of food looks like. Okay, and this is based on
the government's constantly changing food pyramid.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Right.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
And finally the Babylon Bee, nice day outdoors drinking? What
the boys keeps getting interrupted by having to hit this
little white ball?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Ah, it's Joe's life right there. Yeah, an odd anti
golf sentiment there Where did that come from?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
What does a healthy plate of food look like, it's
your balanced diet.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You get your protein, you got your veget table, and
maybe a little tater or something like that. M kind
as opposed to what start? What are other people eating?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
A lot of people are just cutting out the healthy
car They forget that your body needs carbs, so they're
cutting those out.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
And I got a hot.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Dog and then I got some pudding and I got
a French fries. Hot dog putting in French fries.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Is that good? Percal perfect? Yeah? I just saw in
the Free Press they were joking about, all right, we've
become too protein obsessed. There was some sort of bowl
that you could buy that had I think it was
one hundred and sixty eight grams of protein in it,
which is just an absurd amount. And yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The whole people seizing on something online and going way,
way too far thing and there's nothing I can do
about it.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Go ahead, knock yourself out.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So I really look forward to those emails from people
with opinions about the you know, the second strike on
the boat and hexeth in that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm interested in hearing about that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You gotta put the video out, I mean, you got
to get on top of this, unless you know, unless
something horribly illegal happened, then I suppose they're in cover
up mode.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Right, And there have been a couple of different stories
that have been floated. Well, we were just trying to
destroy the rest of the wreckage because it was Lena
Sea Lane or no, we were trying to destroy the
drugs because that was the point destroying the drugs. Those
poor fellows, we didn't even notice them there. They need
to get one story to stick with it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Uh yeah, yesterday it sure looked like they're trying to
pin it on that admiral make it his decision, and
I wonder what he's thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We got a lot more secret Armstrong and Getty, Yes
about my Mr heemmerize it very I get over the
wall tie to release So will you tell us what.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
It with governor Wolves, I mean the incompetent governors. So
if they want to release it, it's okay with me
to release it.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It's perfect. It's my phone call where I got it beached.
It's absolutely perfect.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
So if you want to hear about it, or if
you want to release it, do you want to have
it released? Newstation Failing Failing News Nation News nation is
doing allowed to see, by the way, but if you want.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
To have it released, we were looking at it for
what release. I know, what part of your body was
the MRI I looking?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It was just an m R. What part of the
body it wasn't the.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Brain because I took a cognitive fest and I hastened.
I got a perfect mark which you would be incapable
of doing. Goodbye everybody, YouTube.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So that's that's that's that. We had that clip yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
There's a new clip out Hanson so and and when
the new clip, Trompe is asked about it, and and
he says, he talks about where the MRI I wasn't
if he said, and they said it was the best
IMR they'd ever see.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I just us, I'm sorry, I'm just shaking my hat.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And it was the best MR. They told me it
was the best MRI they'd ever seen. And that is
absolutely hilarious. We have that clip. We should have been
had an m R MRI and uh in the machine,
you know, the whole thing, and it was perfect. It
was perfect. His MRI was perfect, you know, the whole
machine and the other thing. And that my MRI was perfect.
(18:59):
What an interesting personality that is. It's just so funny,
and it seems like he's never heard of an MRI
in his life, and he has no idea what it is.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Even though he just got one.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And I think he honestly doesn't know why he got one,
or what part of his body or how they work.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
They either find something or they don't.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
You don't have like a perfect MRI or like a
really good one, or there's not a score.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
But he is on the phone to putin during the
awesome you know, so your headline today, white House defends
hegzeth overstrike on alleged drug vote that killed survivors. Press
secretary says the admiral who ordered the second strike, which
killed survivors of the initial attack, was unacting under the
Pentagon chief's authority.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So that's interesting. Again, we just don't know some of
the key facts, and so this is just you know,
exploring possibilities, you can call it speculations. Yeah, but some
of the people that could fill in those facts aren't
and that's its own story. Yeah, And I find some
of this kind of loyally. Admiral Bradley, the head of
(20:11):
Special Operations Command by the Way Navy Seal, honorable man,
great service record, not a blemish. Of course, these days,
if you have a single blemish, you disappear, which is
probably not a great system. But anyway, he was acting
legally under authority to use lethal force granted by Hegzeth
and continuing in conducting the attacks on the boat. According
(20:33):
to the White House Press Secretary White House Defensive Hegseth
followed a report Friday in the WAPO that he gave
a spoken order to kill them all aboard the vessel. Again,
the denials are a little bit loyally, probably because there
could be lawyers involved at some point. Anyway, we got
(20:55):
a bunch of different emails about this topic. Do you
want to add anything else to the accusations and denys description, Well,
I don't. It's it's just not clear to me everything
like he was operating under a lawful order by the
Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I don't know why if nothing bad happened, why Pete
Hegseth wouldn't just come out and say, look, this is
what happened.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
We spotted a boat.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I gave the order to you know, and then say
whatever you said, and then he then he hit it,
and then there were, and then there was a second strike.
For this reason, just come out and say that and
show the video. I don't know why you wouldn't do
that unless something bad happened. Well, last night, Hegsath posted
on social media that the September second attacks were Bradley's decision.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Let me make one thing crystal clear. Admiral Mitch Bradley's
an American hero, a true professional that has my one
hundred percent support. I stand by him in the combat
decisions he has made on the September second mission and
all others since. And then the White House Carolan Levitt
said that Bradley had directed the attacks. Quote on September
(22:03):
second Secretary of Hegxeth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these
kinetic strikes. Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority in
the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was
destroyed and the threat to the United States of America
was eliminated. Yes see, that's.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Where it made the turn yesterday later in the day
where I felt like they were trying to put it
on this Bradley guy. Yeah, but so is the story
right now?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Then?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So Pete gave the order kill them all, which is
that is that the normal order to strike a boat,
I mean, is the goal to kill everybody in the
boat or stop the boat.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Stop the boat just because if there are survivors who
are helpless and no longer a threat, and some people
you know are saying, well, they're still part of a
drug running operation, so that was a threat. No, that's
that's not the way military law works, or you know,
American law works.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But so they're trying to go with Pete ordered. Pete says,
kill them all. They hit the boat once there's still
some people left, and that admiral guy took it as well.
Pete told me to kill them all. So I guess
I got to kill these two guys and made a mistake.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Well, although there's another story floating around that No, he
wasn't trying to kill the guys. He was trying to
take out the rest of the boat or destroy the
drugs or something. And you know, you could claim that
in the heat of it he didn't notice the dudes.
I don't know. I don't know. That's not been made clear.
Got a handful of email, got a huge handful of
emails on the topic. A variety of different takes, Guys
(23:34):
writes in the Hegsath, for his part, has not actually
denied what happened. However, some reports out of the administration
now claiming the second strike was because the boat was
still floating and not because there were survivors. That is
a plausible excuse. Well, I favorite treating narco terrorist's enemy combatants.
I would like to note that federal law defines narcotic
trafficking is a criminal act, and I actually do not
know that the President can just as a matter of law,
(23:55):
suddenly declare an act that Congress has decided as a
crime to be an act of war. It's a good
constitutional question. Let's see, Robert, So the Wappole reports something
quoting anonymous sources. Why is that given any credibility at all,
Given the history of the Wappole with fabricating things. This
dude was just put in place on August first and
(24:15):
is a Navy seal. I'm guessing he knows the lawn
isn't afraid of the sec deaf. This is an entire
argument against a straw man to put and keep it
in the news unless there's proof this order exists or
something happened that was illegal. This is just somebody trying
to make news and then the media reporting on that. Essentially,
the story is the story, not the facts. Our media
is so broken. I would feel that that's true.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I would feel that way if you didn't have the
Republican chairs of a couple of committees saying, this looks bad.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
We need to investigate this. Yeah, I would agree, And
so we're waiting for the facts for what it's worth. Robert,
thanks for the note this from Dave on the drug boat. Please,
why do you keep reporting anonymous Trump administration hit pieces
like the recent story about the rudderless FBI report written
by twenty anonymous former and current agents. Please guys be
(25:03):
more skeptical. Okay, don't write to us, right to the
heads of Republican committees who are saying, hey, this looks serious,
we need to look into it. Yeah, that's what gives
it credibility to me.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
If the Republican chair because Republicans don't have to investigate
anything in the House unless they decide to, and they've
decided to investigate this. If the Republican chair of a
couple of different committees had come out and said, now,
this is anonymous sources, we talked to Pete, this didn't happen. Okay,
that would be a different story. But they said, this
looks bad. We need to look into it.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
About this from Brian critical distinctions in the hag Seth
controversy number one, Hegxeth and others are saying that Pete
gave the initial order but not the follow up order
for the second strike that was done by an admiral.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Two.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
They were targeting the boat and its content of drugs,
not that people clinging to the sides. They were concerned
that the cartels would send another boat to retrieve the cargo,
and the cargo was the concern. Let's see, okay, come.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So that kind of makes sense. I guess yes, I
don't know what the rules are there. If the goal
is to destroy a munition's depot someplace, and he got
a bunch of soldiers around there and the first strike
does not destroy the thing, do you hit it again,
(26:17):
even if there's dudes standing there. I would think that
you would hit it again, since the goal was to
destroy the munition's depot, right, Yeah, I would agree. Sideshow
Bob Wrights.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Could someone please explain to me why Venezuela and drug
smugglers deserve death, but Honduran drug smugglers deserve freedom. I'm
pretty sure I know the answer, and it's an obvious one,
but I'd love to hear some other theories, just for
Essa's and giggles. As a reference to Trump saying he
was going to pardon the former president of Honduras who's
in American jails for the rest of his days because
(26:49):
he accepted zillions of dollars in bribes to let the
cartels run Honduras, allegedly, Trump is saying, no, that was
a Biden administration cooked up cooperation with the left dists
of Honduras to frame this poor man. The prosecutors of
the Justice Department disagreed rather strongly with that. I don't know.
(27:09):
I haven't looked into the story. It seems odd timing. Yeah,
I don't know that story at Also, I will not
weigh in. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, well so a big variety, quite a variety of responses.
The fact that they're not just getting to just getting
it out concerns me. Yeah. I would think they could
put this to bed pretty quickly if they were completely
on the right side.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Of this, right, if you could say I wasn't there,
that's not my knife you just say that, but again
we'll say fog of war, etc. Hey a quick word
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Speaker 2 (29:01):
I am just to go back to the MRI.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Can you possibly explain how anybody would ever say, I
don't know what they got an MRI on what that
would be about.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
No, somebody emailed us guys. Since their budget is unlimited
for medical care for the president, they probably just did
like a whole body MRI. You wouldn't be curious yourself.
What are you chicking? Oh yeah, yeah, but I'm not Trump.
How his brain works as a complete mystery to me.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I know, yeah, if it's probably just think he I
think he feels he's like invincible, like immortal, So he
doesn't think much about health stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I think that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And so he's not like a guy who's constantly worried about, Oh, well,
I got a pain, I wonder what that is. I
think he's the exact opposite of that, right, the opposite
of a hypochondriac. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's interesting. Now, okay,
we got some actual mail bag to get to. That's
not about the second strike, which could be quite a
story for a while. Man, we got to look into
(30:04):
some of these economic numbers and polls that are out today.
How are people so scared about their personal finances yet
spending so much, it seems for Christmas? I'm not quite sure.
Lots on the ways to hear. Somehow this became an
off air conversation. How many kids does Pete Hegzeth has?
He is the biological father of four, stepfather to three,
(30:25):
for a total of seven.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
There you go, lovely, I'll keep your family man. Yep,
here here's your freedom loving quote of the day, continuing
our series from James A. Garfield, inspired by the new
Netflix series Death by Lightning, which Judy and I got
through episode two last night very entertaining. He liked Lasagnan
was lazy. Is that what we know about President Garfield?
You're thinking of the cat Garfield? I believe there. I
(30:48):
like this one. If wrinkles must be written on our brows,
let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit
should never growled that's a nice sentiment. This one's a
little more to the point. He who controls the money
supply of an a controls the nation. Oh oh, Garfield
for the win. I gotta watch that show. I gotta
admit I know nothing about James A. Garfield. I find
(31:11):
myself inspired to learn more about the fellow. He seems
to be a man of real honor and integrity, which
is a rarity. Of course, you never know how fictionalized
these things, which is why I want to dig into it. Yeah,
mailbag could be based on a true story like the
Texas chainsaw massacre.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, exactly, there was once a guy with a chainsaw.
That's where the reality ends. The occasionally insightful Magnus in
Tucson writes, can you ask Jack to address the question
of there are any admirable admirals in the electrical college place?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's funny. I believe they're commenting on my inability to speak. Well.
The electoral college thing is, you know, that's yours. But
the saying admirable when you're trying to say admiral, I
do that one too. Let's see, speaking of speech, Jeff
Listener from day one, Thanks Jeff has phrases to be
exempted from free speech. It should be against the law
(32:07):
to utter these three phrases let me be clear. Yeah
that if somebody says that they're about to be utterly
unclear and completely dishonest. So his phrases are let me
be clear, make no mistake, and period full stop.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Oh all right, one more honorable mention. I don't know
who needs to hear this, but not sure I've heard
that one much.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Let me be clear.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Perry full stop is a favorite of Gavin Newsom. Oh god,
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Then Jared and Missouri writes guys Armstrong e giddy Hour two?
Can we come together to prevent this obvious approaching catastrophe
the taxes versus debt? No, we can't until it's too late.
A in g hour four? Can we come together to
prevent this obvious approaching catastrophe? AI hope springs eternal? Yeah,
(32:58):
but Jared I jumped in and say that hope is false.
So doo dooo.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
What's your p doom? We'll have to talk about that later.
That's a popular phrase they throw around in the AI world.
What's your p doom? Your percentage of doom? Maybe we'll
get to that later.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay, speaking of AI theron rights, don't worry. AI will
probably only wipe out half the population in the beginning
to conserve more energy for its own consumption in order
to become even more intelligent. It would not be until
AI can produce robots that can do the maintenance at
power plants and on the servers that it is needed
to keep AI functioning properly that it will finally decide
what to do with the rest of humanity. I'm sure
(33:37):
AI will keep at least a few humans for its
own personal entertainment, kind of like what humans do with pets. Well,
pets have well humans have millions and millions and millions
and millions of pets. So i'd be an AI pet.
I'm fairly obedient. I'll eat what's put in front of me.
Just leave the golf channel on when you go to work.
AI could definitely run a.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
One of those countries where they're observing you all the time,
what do you call it? They got cameras and video,
you know, every just watching you everywhere you go.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I'd be easy for AI to come up with. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Oh, just like a surveillance state. Yeah, surveillance state, A
totalitarian surveillance state.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Well, you could certainly use that phrase to describe as zoo.
I thought you were driving it like a human zoo,
a big, you know, city sized human zoo that they
could be entertained by watching us. Of course does hey,
I need entertainments, and he loves entertainment, but it might
need us for other work and no freedom, and then
our vital fluids. And then John writes, on a totally
different topic, we brought up this idiotic, I mean beyond idiotic, aggressively,
(34:41):
malignantly stupid, viral article about man keeping, which described responding
to his emotional needs and holding his hand when he's worried,
and it was essentially describing love. But now it's called
man keeping and women are supposed to hate it. It's
just bizarre. I wish we had more time to describe it. Actually,
(35:02):
we do have a minute. Can I find it? I
don't know, eh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It's basically trying to present as a negative the idea
of you love your husband or boyfriend and you help
him through tough times. Oh yeah, here it is, and
that's just awful.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
So you have to do that. Oh I know, I know,
it's terrible. It's unfair. Man Keeping describes the emotional labor
women end up doing in heterosexual relationships. Goes beyond remembering birthdays,
are coordinating social plans. It means being your partner's one
person support system, managing his stress, interpreting his moods, holding
his hand through feelings he won't share with anyone else.
All of it unpaid, unacknowledged, and often unreciprocated. And as
(35:40):
Nelly Bowls writes, HM, when I was young, that was
called loving someone man or woman. We all do a
lot of that for our partner, but now we call
it man keeping and we hate it. Oh do we
hate it? Yeah? Holding his hand through feelings ooh.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And men don't do that for women. And if it's
not reciprocated, then you're in a bad relationship. That's got
nothing to do with this, right then, John writes, in
regard to your discussion about man keeping, feminism made me
think of a bumper sticker I saw a couple of
days ago that said, quote conduct yourself with the confidence
of a mediocre white man. I was stunned at how
offensive it was. Put me in a bad mood for
(36:16):
an hour. The car was driven by a woman with
a butch haircut. It was a Subaru with a Tell
your Dog, I said, high sticker. These people are absolutely
crazy high back to your dog.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
The second shot.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The Venezuelan drug vote controversy.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So is your take that they're trying to hang out
to dry that other dude? There are a couple of
different possibilities. The facts are not known at this point.
And by the way, we received a number of really
interesting emails on the topic of many contrasting with each other. Yeah. Yeah,
(01:11):
the facts are in doubt at this point. So expressing
a strong opinion I think is foolish. Of course, we
live in foolish times. We certainly do well.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It seems to me that somebody could take more of
a role of stepping forward and clearing this thing up
in the Defense Department, couldn't they?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah? Are the White House? Yeah? Absolutely? I will tell
you this as a bullsser, do not bless me, as
the old saying goes. The denials by the White House
have been very loyally. They have not been as direct
as they would be if they could be direct, saying no,
(01:51):
that didn't happen. They've said the mission, which was approved
by the Legal Department, is righteous to keep America free
from drugs. But that's not what's being asked right soon
else we'll see. On the other hand, the usual suspects
are lining up to make hay in the usual ways,
turning this into an entirely partisan matter of make it
(02:13):
scoring points and so you know, for instance, and I don't.
I don't care about this a lot, but at least
some of our listeners are like, guys, why are you
siding with the Democrats who are always trying to bring
Trump down? And the answers were not like usual, We're
just trying to figure out what's actually happening. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
About that at all when I think about a story,
whether it's helps Trump hurts Trump. I just want to
know what happened, right, Yep, your hair. It's a nod method,
but we're gonna stick with it. Here's the most interesting
thing I've heard today. First of all, I have a cold.
Every time I fly, I catch a cold. I remember
during COVID they told us flying is like the safest
(02:54):
thing you can do in terms of aggressively filtered jack,
How come every time I fly catch a cold? Anyway,
I think that airports are teeming with filter. It might
be the airport, not the plane, of course. Then that
negates what they said though, flying is not a problem
because the airplane well, okay, maybe the airplanes do recycle
the air and filtered out. But the fact that we're
(03:14):
all jammed together in that little walkway getting on and
off or or wherever else in the airport, if we
get sick, filthy filthy seats there in the terminally, it
doesn't really make fly private like me. Why don't you,
in a related story, let them eat gay care. It
doesn't really make any difference whether when I fly I
get sick on the plane or waiting in the line
(03:35):
to get on the plane, does it?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, not, really, It's a distinction without a difference exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Anyway, here's the most interesting thing I've heard today, and
we're gonna hear a clip from a little bit later.
Trump administration has been cracking down on the trucking industry
started in California where they're giving out all kinds of
licenses to illegals, and we've had some horrifying crashes across
the country. Turns out about half half of the trucking
(04:02):
schools in the entire country, coast to coast, weren't doing
their job or even close to it. Being called CDL mills,
they're just there to stamp licenses and get people through
the door. Probably at the best of the trucking companies,
I don't know who butter and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
If you can fog whatever their word is for mirror,
they will give you a license. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, And at least half of them are going to
be people are going to have their licenses taken back
away because it wasn't a real school they went to,
or they're going to have to be closed down, or
they're gonna have to really get their act together. But
how does something like that happen? And man, does that
lean toward us Libertarians who want to take government out
of these things? Have a private company of some sort
(04:47):
do this?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Right? Could a private company be bribed or not? Good? Sure?
But is it government company more likely to be bad? Yes? Well,
and what's the recourse when when a private company goes
bad or or does well, well, let's stick with the specifics.
Does what the government sanctioned schools which are quasi private
(05:10):
have done. You bring them to their knees, you find
them to death, you put them out of business. If
it's a government agency, what do you do you find
the taxpayers place. It's terrible. Although part of this is
it's just I think it's it's crony capitalism, because I
think a lot of these truck driving schools are private.
But the governments here and there said, look, look we
need lots and lots of drivers. Nobody's gonna pay attention.
(05:33):
These are jobs Americans won't do because they're busy smoking
pot on their parents' basement, sofar or they can't get
a job in their whatever studies program they got a
degree in, right, right, no kidding, You know, we should
probably every single day, I don't know, maybe kickoff hour
two of the show of with just reminding you the
(05:55):
labor participation rate among healthy working age males is thet
it's ever been, and then just go on with whatever
else we're going to talk about, right, because that shades
so many issues we talked about. Yeah, I was about to,
and it might fit in with this.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So, first of all, on that trucking school thing, if
it turns out most of them are private, obviously, that
damages my libertarian argument. So where is the breakdown there? Well,
this state still has to give them the test, though,
and there had to be a lot of people knowing
that they were not doing their job. I mean, sure,
what I mean thousands of people across the country have
(06:35):
to be aware that these schools are just fake basically.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, and then they get guys who can't pass the
tests who are inexplicably given a license by the government.
So it's the sort of public private partnerships that made
America what it is today. Jack. Here's the other interesting
thing I heard today. There is a poll.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Out, one of many negative economic polls, where people are
worried about their healthcare, in particular that they can't afford it,
and the blah blah blah. How do all those numbers
that we had before we went on vacation and including today,
where people are laid on their car payments more than
they've been in decades, their credit card debt is maxed out,
(07:15):
they're more worried about being able to afford prescriptions, blah
blah blah blah blah, they feel horrible about their personal
financial situation. And then if those numbers out of Black
Friday are true, but we spent nine percent more.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
On shopping, what the heck is going on there? Well,
there are a number of different things that could be
going on. Maybe people still perceive the Black Friday is
the day for super bargains, and so they've been keeping
their powder dry until that day they dumped all their
money into it, and now you're going to see a
drop off before and after. I don't know. That's could be.
(07:45):
It could be.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We had a stat not that long ago that the
top we'll forget what it was, twenty percent of income
earners were doing like half of the consumer spending. So
maybe the people with and he just spent like insane
people to make up for other people cutting back. But
(08:07):
none of that fits together, the idea that people are
missing car payments, house payments, can't afford the prescriptions, and
are spending more for Christmas, and there's something funky, or
we're just completely out of control.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I mean, we might just be living like.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The government were broke and we're going to come up
with a new program. It'd be something if the government,
pad the federal government passed some sort of.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Bail out. This would be the next step of pandering
to the citizens. We will bail you out of your
personal debt, and then that drove the federal government into
they had to default.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That would be kind of a perfect It would be
like a Shakespearean ending, very Hamlet ending exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, December second,
known as my mom's birthday. She is just a couple
of weeks younger than Joe Biden. Joe Biden turned eighty
three couple weeks ago. Now my mom is eighty three,
caught up with much better mentally and physically than Joe Biden.
I was just with her. We had a birthday cake
and everything there twenty twenty five. We are armstrong in
getting we approve of this program. We had lemon bars
for my daddy loves lemon bars. What's not to like?
(09:18):
It is one of your top tier cookie or cookie
adjacent desserts at my mom and dad's house. So you
have to sit on the underneath this banner that says
happy birthday. And my mom, because this is the way
she is, has been using this same cardboard banner since
nineteen sixty six for my one year birthday, and everybody's
(09:39):
birthday has the same. She takes it down, she folds
it up, she puts it in a drawer, then she
unfolds it, she gets it out for everybody's birthday and
they have to sit on her knee bit with the
cake for fifty nine years.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Tell you what, whoever made that banner back in the day.
That was amerk and quality.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, exactly, No cheap, Chinese, crappy happy birthday banner is
going to last for fifty some years years.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Lays all right, er, have we begun. Let's begin the
show officially now according to FCC Rules of Rags. Here
we go at.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Mark and the word of the year is rage bait.
And what's so interesting is it only became a word
back in two thousand and two. Now, what is an
example of rage bait? It might be I'll offer this
sentence for you. I hate Santa. That is that I
am putting out something into the public sphere with the
idea of capturing engagement through anger. Therefore, I say something
(10:31):
that is provocative with the mere idea that it's going
to generate.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, that's pretty good. That's a pretty good example too.
That what's a good one.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's a great example. I hate Santa Christmas sucks your daughter?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Are you kidding you? It's the traditions ally al right,
kind of exhausted by even thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I know, rage unplug the internet word of the year. Okay,
we got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of news.
I hope you can stay.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Here from Yo yo yo.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So we attack in Venezuela or what is that? What's
gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Huh. I'm as mystified as I've ever been.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
He actually told Maduro on the phone the other day,
you gotta get out, you and your family.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You gotta get out right now. Huh, Maduro said, Hamden hawd.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I would like to have heard that hemming and hawing.
Do you mean for the afternoon, mister president?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
No, no, for good? But I live here, boy, I
wonder what was said? All right, let's figure out who's
reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie, Oh,
we got this text. It's a classic.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You don't need a parachute to go skydiving. You just
need a parachute to go skydiving twice.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Very good, Very good. That's a that's a lesson for life, right, do.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
A big things?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Where are your headlines? I know, I know you're sick,
so I appreciate you bringing the joke. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
We have three regarding the Venezuela situation. One NBC white
House confirmed second September second strike on alleged drug boat CNN.
Trump struggles with Venezuelan dilemma as Maduro digs in and
Storm builds it home over potential war crime and the
hill pressure grows on headset amid boat strike fallout.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, where's the damn video? I mean, we could solve
this whole thing pretty quickly. Where's the video? It exists,
Just release it and let's get to the bottom of
it and let the chips fall where they.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
May, right.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I wonder if people different people look at the video
and see different things though, it would certainly help it
we get us closer.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
From ABC, white House is quote very optimistic ahead of
Russia US meeting on ending the Ukraine War.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, man, I took in a bunch of information on
that yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Know what I think of that.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The reporting on that is all over the place, and
I'm not sure what's true and what's not. Did Russia
dictate the terms of this thing? Or was that a
misreporting that whole week before we went on vacation.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I don't know. More on that later.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
From the ap Net and Yahoo requests a pardon to
end his ongoing corruption trial in Israel.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That gonna be something if he ends up going to jail. Wow.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
From the Wall Street Journal. Commercial real estate is getting
too cheap to ignore.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's fallen so much that people are starting to think, Hell,
maybe I jump in. Well yeah, Well, I'm just amazed.
Everywhere you go there are so many empty storefronts with signs,
you know, some sort of commercial real estate sign.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
There's so much space all over the place. Yeah, in
inner City, He's obviously in their commercial districts. It's even worse.
New York is actually doing some really cool stuff with
converting those office buildings into residential, which is a good trend,
I think.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
From the New York Post, truck driver charged with killing
newlyweds in horror crash is an illegal immigrant given license
in Newsom's California.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, That's what we were just talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, somebody's got to pay a price for giving out
those licenses to people who shouldn't be driving.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I mean, that is outrageous.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
From the Washington Post, flesh eating worm in Mexico is
squeezing the US beef supply.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Worms are flesh to beef. H gross? How do I
know if I got this my flesh is being eaten away?
Is that the first sign? That is the main.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
All?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Right, study fines one in three Americans have no, oh idea,
what a healthy plate.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Of food looks like? What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
They're saying that Americans are protein obsessed and thinking that
we can get all of our nutrients from stacking up
on protein and we ignore other vital ones.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
One in three Americans doesn't know what a healthy plate
of food looks like. Okay, and this is based on
the government's constantly changing food pyramid.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Right.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
And finally the Babylon Bee, nice day outdoors drinking? What
the boys keeps getting interrupted by having to hit this
little white ball?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Ah, it's Joe's life right there. Yeah, an odd anti
golf sentiment there Where did that come from?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
What does a healthy plate of food look like, it's
your balanced diet.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You get your protein, you got your veget table, and
maybe a little tater or something like that. M kind
as opposed to what start? What are other people eating?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
A lot of people are just cutting out the healthy
car They forget that your body needs carbs, so they're
cutting those out.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
And I got a hot.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Dog and then I got some pudding and I got
a French fries. Hot dog putting in French fries.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Is that good? Percal perfect? Yeah? I just saw in
the Free Press they were joking about, all right, we've
become too protein obsessed. There was some sort of bowl
that you could buy that had I think it was
one hundred and sixty eight grams of protein in it,
which is just an absurd amount. And yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The whole people seizing on something online and going way,
way too far thing and there's nothing I can do
about it.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Go ahead, knock yourself out.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So I really look forward to those emails from people
with opinions about the you know, the second strike on
the boat and hexeth in that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm interested in hearing about that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You gotta put the video out, I mean, you got
to get on top of this, unless you know, unless
something horribly illegal happened, then I suppose they're in cover
up mode.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Right, And there have been a couple of different stories
that have been floated. Well, we were just trying to
destroy the rest of the wreckage because it was Lena
Sea Lane or no, we were trying to destroy the
drugs because that was the point destroying the drugs. Those
poor fellows, we didn't even notice them there. They need
to get one story to stick with it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Uh yeah, yesterday it sure looked like they're trying to
pin it on that admiral make it his decision, and
I wonder what he's thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We got a lot more secret Armstrong and Getty, Yes
about my Mr heemmerize it very I get over the
wall tie to release So will you tell us what.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
It with governor Wolves, I mean the incompetent governors. So
if they want to release it, it's okay with me
to release it.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It's perfect. It's my phone call where I got it beached.
It's absolutely perfect.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
So if you want to hear about it, or if
you want to release it, do you want to have
it released? Newstation Failing Failing News Nation News nation is
doing allowed to see, by the way, but if you want.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
To have it released, we were looking at it for
what release. I know, what part of your body was
the MRI I looking?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It was just an m R. What part of the
body it wasn't the.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Brain because I took a cognitive fest and I hastened.
I got a perfect mark which you would be incapable
of doing. Goodbye everybody, YouTube.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So that's that's that's that. We had that clip yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
There's a new clip out Hanson so and and when
the new clip, Trompe is asked about it, and and
he says, he talks about where the MRI I wasn't
if he said, and they said it was the best
IMR they'd ever see.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I just us, I'm sorry, I'm just shaking my hat.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And it was the best MR. They told me it
was the best MRI they'd ever seen. And that is
absolutely hilarious. We have that clip. We should have been
had an m R MRI and uh in the machine,
you know, the whole thing, and it was perfect. It
was perfect. His MRI was perfect, you know, the whole
machine and the other thing. And that my MRI was perfect.
(18:59):
What an interesting personality that is. It's just so funny,
and it seems like he's never heard of an MRI
in his life, and he has no idea what it is.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Even though he just got one.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And I think he honestly doesn't know why he got one,
or what part of his body or how they work.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
They either find something or they don't.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
You don't have like a perfect MRI or like a
really good one, or there's not a score.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
But he is on the phone to putin during the
awesome you know, so your headline today, white House defends
hegzeth overstrike on alleged drug vote that killed survivors. Press
secretary says the admiral who ordered the second strike, which
killed survivors of the initial attack, was unacting under the
Pentagon chief's authority.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So that's interesting. Again, we just don't know some of
the key facts, and so this is just you know,
exploring possibilities, you can call it speculations. Yeah, but some
of the people that could fill in those facts aren't
and that's its own story. Yeah, And I find some
of this kind of loyally. Admiral Bradley, the head of
(20:11):
Special Operations Command by the Way Navy Seal, honorable man,
great service record, not a blemish. Of course, these days,
if you have a single blemish, you disappear, which is
probably not a great system. But anyway, he was acting
legally under authority to use lethal force granted by Hegzeth
and continuing in conducting the attacks on the boat. According
(20:33):
to the White House Press Secretary White House Defensive Hegseth
followed a report Friday in the WAPO that he gave
a spoken order to kill them all aboard the vessel. Again,
the denials are a little bit loyally, probably because there
could be lawyers involved at some point. Anyway, we got
(20:55):
a bunch of different emails about this topic. Do you
want to add anything else to the accusations and denys description, Well,
I don't. It's it's just not clear to me everything
like he was operating under a lawful order by the
Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I don't know why if nothing bad happened, why Pete
Hegseth wouldn't just come out and say, look, this is
what happened.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
We spotted a boat.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I gave the order to you know, and then say
whatever you said, and then he then he hit it,
and then there were, and then there was a second strike.
For this reason, just come out and say that and
show the video. I don't know why you wouldn't do
that unless something bad happened. Well, last night, Hegsath posted
on social media that the September second attacks were Bradley's decision.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Let me make one thing crystal clear. Admiral Mitch Bradley's
an American hero, a true professional that has my one
hundred percent support. I stand by him in the combat
decisions he has made on the September second mission and
all others since. And then the White House Carolan Levitt
said that Bradley had directed the attacks. Quote on September
(22:03):
second Secretary of Hegxeth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these
kinetic strikes. Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority in
the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was
destroyed and the threat to the United States of America
was eliminated. Yes see, that's.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Where it made the turn yesterday later in the day
where I felt like they were trying to put it
on this Bradley guy. Yeah, but so is the story
right now?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Then?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So Pete gave the order kill them all, which is
that is that the normal order to strike a boat,
I mean, is the goal to kill everybody in the
boat or stop the boat.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Stop the boat just because if there are survivors who
are helpless and no longer a threat, and some people
you know are saying, well, they're still part of a
drug running operation, so that was a threat. No, that's
that's not the way military law works, or you know,
American law works.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But so they're trying to go with Pete ordered. Pete says,
kill them all. They hit the boat once there's still
some people left, and that admiral guy took it as well.
Pete told me to kill them all. So I guess
I got to kill these two guys and made a mistake.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Well, although there's another story floating around that No, he
wasn't trying to kill the guys. He was trying to
take out the rest of the boat or destroy the
drugs or something. And you know, you could claim that
in the heat of it he didn't notice the dudes.
I don't know. I don't know. That's not been made clear.
Got a handful of email, got a huge handful of
emails on the topic. A variety of different takes, Guys
(23:34):
writes in the Hegsath, for his part, has not actually
denied what happened. However, some reports out of the administration
now claiming the second strike was because the boat was
still floating and not because there were survivors. That is
a plausible excuse. Well, I favorite treating narco terrorist's enemy combatants.
I would like to note that federal law defines narcotic
trafficking is a criminal act, and I actually do not
know that the President can just as a matter of law,
(23:55):
suddenly declare an act that Congress has decided as a
crime to be an act of war. It's a good
constitutional question. Let's see, Robert, So the Wappole reports something
quoting anonymous sources. Why is that given any credibility at all,
Given the history of the Wappole with fabricating things. This
dude was just put in place on August first and
(24:15):
is a Navy seal. I'm guessing he knows the lawn
isn't afraid of the sec deaf. This is an entire
argument against a straw man to put and keep it
in the news unless there's proof this order exists or
something happened that was illegal. This is just somebody trying
to make news and then the media reporting on that. Essentially,
the story is the story, not the facts. Our media
is so broken. I would feel that that's true.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I would feel that way if you didn't have the
Republican chairs of a couple of committees saying, this looks bad.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
We need to investigate this. Yeah, I would agree, And
so we're waiting for the facts for what it's worth. Robert,
thanks for the note this from Dave on the drug boat. Please,
why do you keep reporting anonymous Trump administration hit pieces
like the recent story about the rudderless FBI report written
by twenty anonymous former and current agents. Please guys be
(25:03):
more skeptical. Okay, don't write to us, right to the
heads of Republican committees who are saying, hey, this looks serious,
we need to look into it. Yeah, that's what gives
it credibility to me.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
If the Republican chair because Republicans don't have to investigate
anything in the House unless they decide to, and they've
decided to investigate this. If the Republican chair of a
couple of different committees had come out and said, now,
this is anonymous sources, we talked to Pete, this didn't happen. Okay,
that would be a different story. But they said, this
looks bad. We need to look into it.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
About this from Brian critical distinctions in the hag Seth
controversy number one, Hegxeth and others are saying that Pete
gave the initial order but not the follow up order
for the second strike that was done by an admiral.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Two.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
They were targeting the boat and its content of drugs,
not that people clinging to the sides. They were concerned
that the cartels would send another boat to retrieve the cargo,
and the cargo was the concern. Let's see, okay, come.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So that kind of makes sense. I guess yes, I
don't know what the rules are there. If the goal
is to destroy a munition's depot someplace, and he got
a bunch of soldiers around there and the first strike
does not destroy the thing, do you hit it again,
(26:17):
even if there's dudes standing there. I would think that
you would hit it again, since the goal was to
destroy the munition's depot, right, Yeah, I would agree. Sideshow
Bob Wrights.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Could someone please explain to me why Venezuela and drug
smugglers deserve death, but Honduran drug smugglers deserve freedom. I'm
pretty sure I know the answer, and it's an obvious one,
but I'd love to hear some other theories, just for
Essa's and giggles. As a reference to Trump saying he
was going to pardon the former president of Honduras who's
in American jails for the rest of his days because
(26:49):
he accepted zillions of dollars in bribes to let the
cartels run Honduras, allegedly, Trump is saying, no, that was
a Biden administration cooked up cooperation with the left dists
of Honduras to frame this poor man. The prosecutors of
the Justice Department disagreed rather strongly with that. I don't know.
(27:09):
I haven't looked into the story. It seems odd timing. Yeah,
I don't know that story at Also, I will not
weigh in. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, well so a big variety, quite a variety of responses.
The fact that they're not just getting to just getting
it out concerns me. Yeah. I would think they could
put this to bed pretty quickly if they were completely
on the right side.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Of this, right, if you could say I wasn't there,
that's not my knife you just say that, but again
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Speaker 2 (29:01):
I am just to go back to the MRI.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Can you possibly explain how anybody would ever say, I
don't know what they got an MRI on what that
would be about.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
No, somebody emailed us guys. Since their budget is unlimited
for medical care for the president, they probably just did
like a whole body MRI. You wouldn't be curious yourself.
What are you chicking? Oh yeah, yeah, but I'm not Trump.
How his brain works as a complete mystery to me.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I know, yeah, if it's probably just think he I
think he feels he's like invincible, like immortal, So he
doesn't think much about health stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I think that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And so he's not like a guy who's constantly worried about, Oh, well,
I got a pain, I wonder what that is. I
think he's the exact opposite of that, right, the opposite
of a hypochondriac. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's interesting. Now, okay,
we got some actual mail bag to get to. That's
not about the second strike, which could be quite a
story for a while. Man, we got to look into
(30:04):
some of these economic numbers and polls that are out today.
How are people so scared about their personal finances yet
spending so much, it seems for Christmas? I'm not quite sure.
Lots on the ways to hear. Somehow this became an
off air conversation. How many kids does Pete Hegzeth has?
He is the biological father of four, stepfather to three,
(30:25):
for a total of seven.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
There you go, lovely, I'll keep your family man. Yep,
here here's your freedom loving quote of the day, continuing
our series from James A. Garfield, inspired by the new
Netflix series Death by Lightning, which Judy and I got
through episode two last night very entertaining. He liked Lasagnan
was lazy. Is that what we know about President Garfield?
You're thinking of the cat Garfield? I believe there. I
(30:48):
like this one. If wrinkles must be written on our brows,
let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit
should never growled that's a nice sentiment. This one's a
little more to the point. He who controls the money
supply of an a controls the nation. Oh oh, Garfield
for the win. I gotta watch that show. I gotta
admit I know nothing about James A. Garfield. I find
(31:11):
myself inspired to learn more about the fellow. He seems
to be a man of real honor and integrity, which
is a rarity. Of course, you never know how fictionalized
these things, which is why I want to dig into it. Yeah,
mailbag could be based on a true story like the
Texas chainsaw massacre.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, exactly, there was once a guy with a chainsaw.
That's where the reality ends. The occasionally insightful Magnus in
Tucson writes, can you ask Jack to address the question
of there are any admirable admirals in the electrical college place?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's funny. I believe they're commenting on my inability to speak. Well.
The electoral college thing is, you know, that's yours. But
the saying admirable when you're trying to say admiral, I
do that one too. Let's see, speaking of speech, Jeff
Listener from day one, Thanks Jeff has phrases to be
exempted from free speech. It should be against the law
(32:07):
to utter these three phrases let me be clear. Yeah
that if somebody says that they're about to be utterly
unclear and completely dishonest. So his phrases are let me
be clear, make no mistake, and period full stop.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Oh all right, one more honorable mention. I don't know
who needs to hear this, but not sure I've heard
that one much.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Let me be clear.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Perry full stop is a favorite of Gavin Newsom. Oh god,
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Then Jared and Missouri writes guys Armstrong e giddy Hour two?
Can we come together to prevent this obvious approaching catastrophe
the taxes versus debt? No, we can't until it's too late.
A in g hour four? Can we come together to
prevent this obvious approaching catastrophe? AI hope springs eternal? Yeah,
(32:58):
but Jared I jumped in and say that hope is false.
So doo dooo.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
What's your p doom? We'll have to talk about that later.
That's a popular phrase they throw around in the AI world.
What's your p doom? Your percentage of doom? Maybe we'll
get to that later.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay, speaking of AI theron rights, don't worry. AI will
probably only wipe out half the population in the beginning
to conserve more energy for its own consumption in order
to become even more intelligent. It would not be until
AI can produce robots that can do the maintenance at
power plants and on the servers that it is needed
to keep AI functioning properly that it will finally decide
what to do with the rest of humanity. I'm sure
(33:37):
AI will keep at least a few humans for its
own personal entertainment, kind of like what humans do with pets. Well,
pets have well humans have millions and millions and millions
and millions of pets. So i'd be an AI pet.
I'm fairly obedient. I'll eat what's put in front of me.
Just leave the golf channel on when you go to work.
AI could definitely run a.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
One of those countries where they're observing you all the time,
what do you call it? They got cameras and video,
you know, every just watching you everywhere you go.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I'd be easy for AI to come up with. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Oh, just like a surveillance state. Yeah, surveillance state, A
totalitarian surveillance state.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Well, you could certainly use that phrase to describe as zoo.
I thought you were driving it like a human zoo,
a big, you know, city sized human zoo that they
could be entertained by watching us. Of course does hey,
I need entertainments, and he loves entertainment, but it might
need us for other work and no freedom, and then
our vital fluids. And then John writes, on a totally
different topic, we brought up this idiotic, I mean beyond idiotic, aggressively,
(34:41):
malignantly stupid, viral article about man keeping, which described responding
to his emotional needs and holding his hand when he's worried,
and it was essentially describing love. But now it's called
man keeping and women are supposed to hate it. It's
just bizarre. I wish we had more time to describe it. Actually,
(35:02):
we do have a minute. Can I find it? I
don't know, eh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It's basically trying to present as a negative the idea
of you love your husband or boyfriend and you help
him through tough times. Oh yeah, here it is, and
that's just awful.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
So you have to do that. Oh I know, I know,
it's terrible. It's unfair. Man Keeping describes the emotional labor
women end up doing in heterosexual relationships. Goes beyond remembering birthdays,
are coordinating social plans. It means being your partner's one
person support system, managing his stress, interpreting his moods, holding
his hand through feelings he won't share with anyone else.
All of it unpaid, unacknowledged, and often unreciprocated. And as
(35:40):
Nelly Bowls writes, HM, when I was young, that was
called loving someone man or woman. We all do a
lot of that for our partner, but now we call
it man keeping and we hate it. Oh do we
hate it? Yeah? Holding his hand through feelings ooh.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And men don't do that for women. And if it's
not reciprocated, then you're in a bad relationship. That's got
nothing to do with this, right then, John writes, in
regard to your discussion about man keeping, feminism made me
think of a bumper sticker I saw a couple of
days ago that said, quote conduct yourself with the confidence
of a mediocre white man. I was stunned at how
offensive it was. Put me in a bad mood for
(36:16):
an hour. The car was driven by a woman with
a butch haircut. It was a Subaru with a Tell
your Dog, I said, high sticker. These people are absolutely
crazy high back to your dog.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
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