August 6, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The adult Happy Meal from McDonald's & the Steve Witkoff/Putin meeting
- Sex toys at WNBA games, smelly Ubers & mistreating the Palisades fire victims
- Collapse of the UK & free speech
- The anniversary of Hiroshima
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and no Hee.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty. The McDonald's just unveiled their new adult
happy meal. Between this and Sydney Sweeney, one guy's.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Like best week ever.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Oh, you were just mentioning that McDonald's sales have rebounded
after a tough couple of quarters, which people were using
that as an example of sea people are struggling. They're
pulling back on fast food and credit cards are maxed out.
But McDonald's just bounced back. They are going to announce
an adult happy meal though, featuring either a quarter pound
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or with cheese that's my go to, or a ten
piece chicken McNuggets whatever the hell those are fries, a
collectible souvenir, and the new They're Chicken adjacent and the
new Mount McDonald's shake, which features a mystery flavor. The
companies encouraged diners to figure out, Now, that's a funny hook.
(01:14):
See if you can figure out what this flavor is.
We could say that about the hamburgers. I love the taste,
but it don't taste like a Hamburger. It's definitely not Patty's.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We've dropped on the floor and had to do something
with So don't guess that. Okay, it's not come within
a thousand miles of a cow.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's where we'll start.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I kid, of course, it's not a flavor that occurs
in nature.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We'll just give you that him.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
We can, of course, because McDonald's has more lawyers than
than the Onions. A couple of things, A little bit
of breaking news here. So I had the news last
hour that whit Coough Trump's piece deal guy that he's
been sending around the world world. I was over talking
(02:01):
to Putin and the Kremlin announced good news, the meeting
was constructive and useful, and I said, no, it wasn't. No,
it's not. And apparently Trump reacted the same way, because
he announced just a little bit ago there will be
an additional twenty five percent tariff on India as punishment
for importing Russian oil, bringing the total to fifty percent.
(02:23):
To me, that is indicating that he talked to Witcoff
and Whitcoff said he ain't budget, he ain't doing it right.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Sure, Yeah, So the India thing's really interesting. I won't
go off on it. But they're an enormous and growing economy,
you know, an increasingly important presence in the world, and
they're not happy about getting strong armed. And there's some
thought that Trump will not alienate him because they're too
big a prize coming over to our side of the
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ledger and not China's.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So we'll see how this all settles.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, the problem is, I can't come up with an
example of sanctions doing much. They get through. It's amazing
to me that the news media reports sanctions as if
because we all know the history of sanctions is it
always works. It stopped a ran we didn't have to
bomb them. It stopped North Korea, it stopped Russia before
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they invaded. It stopped I mean, you could make a
list of milli it stopped I raq you Coulchina. You
could make an endless list of times sanctions have not accomplished.
But why does the media always report it like it's
a thing? When is it been a thing? I've not
seen it ever really work.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, that's a thing. It's just not much of a thing.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Part of the reason is if a country's really committed,
there will they'll know weather the storm along with the
fact that everybody cheats, including even our own allies cheating.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
In December, when the son of the head of the
UN was getting rich on doing unsanctioned business with a rock,
was it or around or both of them?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I mean the UN itself was laughing at it. So
my guess would be putin this, Yeah, go ahead with
their sanctions or whatever. We'll get around them like we
have been doing for three years, or you'll back off
at some point or whatever. Oh no, you have seized yacht.
I have bought three more today. So the war between
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Russian and Ukraine. Many people have commented on this. It
is moved us into a new modern era of warfare
that is different from anything that's occurred in the past,
and there'll be no going back. I mean, how effective
tanks are going to be in the future is up
in the air. Maybe tanks will cease to be a
thing after one hundred years of being one of the
biggest things on the planet because of drones and all
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that sort of stuff. You know that. Here was an
interview with a soldier in Ukraine on whether the United
States is ready for modern warfare. You're at the ground
level of this new innovative warfare.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, you're saying the United States is not prepared for
the new era of warfare.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
No, that's already here. Yeah, exactly, No, it's not prepared.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Doesn't see that it can be a problem.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And former Ambassador John Herbst was speaking to that on
News Nation.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
And I think that Soldier is absolutely right that the
cutting edge of war is being displayed right now in Ukraine.
And Ukrainians have been master innovators with drones and electronic warfare.
And we know that our armed services recognize this, and
that's why they are very interested in a drone deal
US in Ukraine for joint production so we can get
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some of this cutting edge technology. But this is very
important for American security and making sure Putin does not
conquer Ukraine is critical for American security.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I hope we make that deal, and I hope we
get the latest technology and spend a lot of time
thinking about it so we don't find ourselves with our
pants down in the next war.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And in return crank out a bunch of them for
Ukraine to use. This is like the basis of a
pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
This is the anniversary of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan,
which they didn't believe we actually had because it was
the latest greatest technology at the time, and reading a
couple of different books over the last few months about
the last few months of the Pacific War, there's all
kinds of things that we had developed and invented between
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Pearl Harbor and the end, like there's hardly anything like radar.
I mean, there was so many different things that we
had the edge on over Japan that allowed us to
just at the end we were just able to trounce
them and the technicolo the technological advantage is huge, and
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I just I hope we haven't gotten fat and soft
when we find out we're way behind the Chinese or
the Russians or whoever, when the s hits the fan.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I would like to think that our creativity, capability, energy
as a people is just kind of on vacation and
that and this might be too late. Winston Churchill, I
had George Washington talking to us from beyond the grave.
Now it's Winston Churchill's time. Winston would probably say, all right, yeah,
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you'd be way smarter off waking up now, but you
won't until the Pooh actually hits the fan.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
But I'd like to think we could reawaken.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But yeah, I've been reading fairmount about our utter horrific
lap lack of shipbuilding and ship repair capability right now.
The statistics for how long it takes a Navy ship
to get back on the water and operating at full
steam is just crazy. And we've got to farm a
lot of it out. We have no institutional knowledge. We
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don't have big ship building crews in New England like
we used to. We've got to ask the South Koreans
to do it for us or whatever. In a lot
of cases, you know, if things got ugly with China
and if it was you know, costly to the Navy,
I think we would find ourselves in awful straits because
they're building ships like lunatics.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
One of the problems with the lessons of World War
One and World War II is kind of putting in
our minds or into the culture the idea that the
good guys ultimately always win. The good guys don't always win. Historically,
lots of times the good guys lose and the awful,
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racist or rapey or whatever they are group wins.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, or even by the time the good guys do win,
when they win, millions of lives have been lost. Yeah,
all sorts of horror and hunger and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, it reminds me. It's one of those things though,
that human nature never changes. We as conservatives, believe that
fervently and human nature is a fat, happy society will
be fat and happy until somebody makes it very, very unhappy,
and then we'll remember, Oh that's right, exercise, toughness, coherence, unity,
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I remember those things if we do remember them.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So we got a serious problem in the WNBA. As
fans have decided it's funny. I guess I'm using my
finger quotes. I don't know if they find it amusing
or edgy, but it has become a thing of people
throwing sex toys onto the court at WEDNBA games, and
I think it's a tragedy. I'm not laughed at it
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at all.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's really sullying the sanctity, the purity if you will,
love the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I saw one of the devices that got thrown out
of the court the other day. Somebody sent a picture
of it to me on my phone. My phone alerted
me this is adult content. Are you sure you're ready
to see it? And then I had to click yes,
and then it said after this is what it said
on my phone screen, and it said, after you see this,
(09:53):
if you need help, here's a number you can call. Okay. Yeah, yeah,
I've raised a couple of kids and then I did
the things that caused the kids to exist. So I'm
fatally familiar with a lot of the stuff that it's
involved here. Yeah, helpline, Yeah, I'll tell you what I
just Harrisons, I saw that dildo bouncing around on the.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
W NBA court.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It's just I can't sleep at night. It's all I
see in my dreams. Hello, is this the helpline? Yeah?
I just saw a big green rubber penis and I
just don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What to do. Now, what would you like to do?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Anyway, that's caught on at WAPA games will take on
that problem with many others they too. Hey, oh look out,
something just came until the floor, an object that just
flew in as the free throne is being.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Made.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You look like that hit a player too, So it's
becoming a safety issue. People throwing the sex toys on
the floor at the w NBA Games, And I think
it's a good idea to call it an object. Same
way they used to not show streakers run across the
field because it just.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Encourages them, right right, Yeah, you don't want to give
them the same they're looking for.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, exactly. So anyway, we'll keep an eye on that
very important story of sex toys being thrown on the floor.
Wnba games. I want to mention this. So I bought
a I bought my son's first vehicle the other day,
and I bought it from a guy in the Bay Area,
and I drove her there.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I ubered over.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
To pick it up yesterday and drove it home. Smelly,
a stuba ride I've ever taken in my life. I
don't know what was going on there. I don't know
if a body was deckaying or if it was him
or what. But ooh, that was rough. AnyWho, the guys,
the guy I bought it from, guy bought my age
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seemed pretty well to do, but living in a uh
not pretty reticularly well to do a little duplex thingy.
He said, heah, I'm living with my daughter. I had
a house in the Pacific Palisades completely burned to the ground,
and then we got on that whole and I said,
oh jeez, yeah, I phoned it and he ended up
showing me. We end up talking about it for a
(12:15):
long time, and he showed me tons of pictures and videos.
I mean, he was taking pictures and videos while it
was occurring, with the idea that he was going to
be fine. For a couple of different reasons. It was
way over there, and he thought, there's no way it
gets clear over here. Plus he thought, with all these
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gazillion dollars homes and some of the masters of the
universe that live in this neighborhood, there's no way the
city is going to let these homes burn down, was
his thinking. And he was standing there wife and kids.
He didn't have kids, but a wife and pets had
taken off and everything like that. He was there with
the hose. He was going to protect his house, and
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the cops showed up and said you got to go,
and he went. And he's so thankful that he did,
because the fire quickly overwhelmed everything and burnt everything to
the ground. He has shown me pictures of stuff that
he found in the In the he showed me he
had a cyber truck, like I have a cyber truck,
and he had a cyber truck. It's nothing left but
the stainless steel panels just sitting there on the ground.
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Everything else completely disappeared. Showed me up nice he had
a watch collection, a nice watch that he found. It
was just charred. You could kind of tell it was
a watch.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I'll bet more than one person and this is grim sorry,
but has met their end, standing there with a fire
hose as the I'm sorry, with a hose, a consumer
hose as the wall of fire comes towards them, and thinking,
oh my god, I miscalculated.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I almost did myself. If you remember, that's what I
told him about, because he said, he said fire. He said,
I have a new respect for fire, and I said,
the same thing happened to me. I've told the story.
This is before you were here, Katie. But our farm
caught on fire and I had it was a tiny
little fire. I mean it was like three feet in diame,
and I thought, well, I'm going to get a hose,
and so I went and got some hoses and put
them together, and when I turned around, it's a giant fire.
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And then I got the hose stretch over there and
I'm trying to hose it, and before long I was
consumed in smoke and heat and didn't know which direction
was out and which direction was toward the fire, and
fire trucks eventually got there and blah blah blah, my
shoes melted to the payment it was. But yeah, that's
exactly right. You think I'm gonna stop this with this hose,
and the next thing, you know, mother nature does her thing.
(14:27):
And that's what happened with him. But I asked him
the question, of course, of how has it been dealing
with the county and the government and the insurance. He said,
oh please, and he dropped a bunch of f bombs
and his accomplished as zero since that fire. In terms
of trying to get any money. He's living with his daughter,
and he doesn't have any idea if he's going back,
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if he can go back, what kind of money he's
gonna get. Nothing at this point.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I hate to bring politics into this, but I just
happened to read I think it was a National Review
Somebody's writing about how Donald Trump saved Karen Bass's job.
The idiot left the mayor of la who was seriously
on the ropes because of her utterly incompetent, insensitive, dishonest
handling of the wildfire problem, but the high profile immigration
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raids has enabled her to you know, rush to the ramparts,
to play the progressive warrior to protect our immigrant communities,
and it's saved her bacon if you get in, Which
is not to say he shouldn't be deporting people at all,
but it's it's kind of interesting the way those things
can turn out.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh and he sent the National Guard. That was a
good you know, helped rescuer. I guess if you get
into an uber or a lyft and it smells really,
really horrible, what is it most likely the driver?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, in my experience, it's often like they're wearing way
too much cologne or has just coded the place with
some sort of disinfectant deal thing, which is terrible.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Now, this wasn't either one of those. It definitely wasn't cologne,
and it wasn't a stank Huh, it was stank. It
was like, was it like a spill that they didn't
get all the way and went moldy in the car?
Kind of a situation that could happen. I did have
a gallon of milk explode in my truck one time,
and it smelled pretty bad for a long time.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Should have torched it. Speaking of fire, I.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Left it in my truck on accident on a day
when it was one hundred and twelve degrees outside and
it was probably one hundred and fifty inside the truck
and it just burst. And then it was in there
overnight and it smelled so bad. But I eventually lysolded
enough over the period of like a year to get
the smell completely gone. But I think this was the dude,
what would make a human being smell like that? Is
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it like a thirty year old dude? What would what
would cause your body.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
To do that?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
What kind of question is that exactly? What's you want
to talk about this on the air? Well? What your
mind are? Are you dying or perhaps?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
But I will not I will not take an uber
ride to this conversation.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Hey Michael, you answer him? No?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
All right? The UK is falling apart our Papa great
for written.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I think I'll talk about my sailing lessons and the
One More Thing podcast. If you've never heard the One
More Thing podcast, you should check it out. Every day
we do a little thing after the show. I noticed
you came to work wearing a sailor suit today. It's
very cute. Call everybody mate coming, Yeah, lovely, I'll look
forward to that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So I happen to hear an ad the other day
for a news service, I guess website, singing app that
will bring you all sorts of news stories and also
includes what percentage of the coverage of them is like
in left wing media or right wing media. And they
gave a couple of examples of one story that was
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ninety seven percent being covered in right wing media conservative media.
And we all know that exists, but one of the
and I may look into it, but man, I don't
get to a quarter of the content I already subscribe
to anyway. I was reminded of that when I saw
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a number of different reports over the incredible unrest in
Great Britain.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Nobody in the mainstream media is talking about this, and
hardly anybody's writing about it because they are intensely uncomfortable
with the themes. We are not intensely uncomfortable with the themes,
as you'll soon find out.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So a couple of things just very quickly.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
This was a story in the Telegraph UK Sharia court
job advertisement deleted from government website. Manchester in the North
of England was looking for a Sharia law administrator to
liaison with the Sharia courts that thes in that area
are running.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Now, uh, okay, you're already into crazyville.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah. But when.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
That came to the attention of people in the media
and all, they quietly took it down. Sharia courts have
existed in the UK since the early nineteen eighties. In
issue Islam Inspired rulings on family life and marriage matters anyway,
really good piece by Dominic Green in the Free Press.
Are these mothers starting a revolt in England? After a
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male migrant sexually assaulted a fourteen year old local girl
in Epping in England, the mothers of the town took
to the streets. Their anger is spreading like wildfire across
the country. Did you know there were large demonstrations and
I think it was twenty two different English cities last weekend. No,
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And they go into the background of how the confrontation
because the local socialist the government is opening my centers
and they got the rape gangs and the grooming gangs
off in Pakistani men, et cetera that have become so
controversial in Britain, and the government was actively covering up.
But there was a lot of violence against some of
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the demonstrators, by counterprotesters and by cops, and they make
the point in the free press this writer does, who's
a brit that if if the guy who is run
over by a police van, for instance, wasn't white and
working class, it would have led all the news in
the country all day long, all week long. But it
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really didn't get that much coverage. So yeah, you got
more than twenty towns in cities and cities in England
and Scotland. It was started by a bunch of moms.
Now it's become much more male.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well, I'll tell you my experience of trying to look
into stories like this. If I hear somebody talking about
them and then you try to google it or try
to find it, it's really hard to find information on
this stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, So anyway, he writes about this a lot that
he gets to his main point. The country feels on edge,
and not just because of the cost of living. Frustration
is growing about a two tier justice system that ignores
crime but prosecutes the law abiding for speaking about crime,
Mass immigration, and a loss of social cohesion that's accelerated
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a collapse in public trust in the and in the
police and in the government. Serious stuff. And then I
came across this in the Wall Street Journal and this
was written by Dominic Green, and he sets it up,
but we've more or.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Less done that.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And and interestingly he talks about government power and howment
government rotates between parties that agree on the nature of
the regime, hence terms such as unit party, the blob,
and the swamp. Then he gets a little bit into
populism that tries to fight against that when labor and
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now he's.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Talking about Great Britain.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
This is a pretty good summary of what's going on
when Labor suppresses free speech and bad news. And I
know you've been listening and thinking about that too, Jack,
So in just a second we'll get to that when Labor,
the Labor Party suppresses free speech and bad news, panders
to Islamists and environmentalists, and runs a two tier justice system.
It exploits the legislative legacy of the Conservative's fourteen year
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effort to keep the British regime afloat.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The Conservatives initiated.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Speech controls such as public spaces protection orders, under which
Christians have been arrested for silent prayer outside abortion clinics
and non crime hate incidents in which Britain's who speak
out receive home visits from police for posting something online
that the powers that be don't like. Both parties minimize
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the systematic rape and track picking of white British girls
by gangs of mostly Pakistani Muslim origin, and both explored
defining Islamophobia in law. The Conservatives also passed the Online
Safety Act. It aims to protect children from pornography and
pro suicide websites. But listen to this, It also includes
a new false communication offense. Social media users can be
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prosecuted for sending messages intended to quote cause non trivial
psychological or physical harm to a likely audience.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Which of course is in the eye of the beholder.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
So starting in late July.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It should be speech is not violence. I don't care
what some people say, well, right, But then when you
write it the way it was written there, not only
is speech violence, but it's like really wide open to.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Interpretation for instance.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So when this part of the Act went into effect
late last month, Twitter users in Britain were blocked from
viewing parliamentary speeches about grooming gangs HM. They were blocked
from sharing footage of police arresting anti immigration protesters.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I can't believe that our mother country where all of
this started, you're not allowed to watch certain arguments your
government is happening.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's right, because they might be offensive to people. The
government is also creating a police unit to monitor groups
organizing protests against two issues on which the regime is
vulnerable mass immigration in the asylum crisis. So they're developing
a department of the cops to monitor, surveil, harass anybody
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who even tweets about an anti grooming gang march or
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well as so, in two thousand and three, they passed
a law making it illegal to send electric messages that
are grossly offensive, in decent, obscene, or menacing. Those are
all ores. You could be any of those indecent, offensive, menacing, obscene,
I mean in the eye to beholder obviously well, and
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anybody's gone through the whole woke nightmare knows that they
pretend to be offended as a weapon. And then they
added in twenty twenty three to that two thousand and
three law new offenses for sending threatening although sometimes they
just interpret criticizing as inherently threatening or false communications with
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the intent to cause harm. You know, and we know
in the United States how things can be deemed false
accusations like I don't think masks work, you know, that
sort of thing, but you do it around maybe racial stuff.
And people have been getting thrown in jail for tweets
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or or Facebook postings and that sort of stuff in
Great Britain, or as Joe said, you get a visit
from people at your house, which has of course a
a quieting effect on people.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Of course, the chief of the Metropolitan Police in London,
i think, threatened to use the full force of the
law to come after non British Internet users who, for instance,
post things that they find objectionable, like on Rumble or
on Reddit. They made threats against Reddit because Reddit was
running comments about the rape gangs or the migrant crisis.
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And this guy, mister Green, actually he ends up with
as in Nikolai Chiesheshkw's Romania in nineteen eighty nine, Britain's
people have turned against the regime. The regime is turning
against the people. It can't silence them all. Mister Starmer
and his friends will go down with the ship. Still
unclear what kind of regime can refloat Britain and restore
its traditional freedoms.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Still is coming.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
This guy's a Wall Street Journal contributor and a fellow
of the Royal Historical Society.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
So the breakdown of those speech laws or communication laws
that they passed. These laws focus on online communications intended
to cause harm or distress distress. Wow, so you've got
a law against communications that cause distress. Now that could
be interpreted as anything. And again, I don't think this
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point can be emphasized enough. Pretended distress or working yourself
up into actually being distressed is like the number one
weapon of the neo Marxist woke left. Don't you remember
it doesn't matter how you intended it, it's how I
received it that makes it racist. It's a microaggression that
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is their number one weapon. And then they've got everybody
so terrified of saying the wrong thing. They take over
the institution, they move their own people in. It is
their most potent weapon, and the British freaking government is
playing directly into their hands. Yeah, we're's not as far
down the road as Great Britain. But I remember when
the New York Times declared, Now, I don't know if
they still would believe this. This was back during that
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weird twenty to twenty three period here in this country.
But they in New York Times they said intent does
not matter, right, that which is insane.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Right. And there are.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
People in prison in Britain right now for a single tweet,
for instance, having violated these laws.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Well, man, if it is against the law to send
an online communication that causes distress, yeah, that'd be tough
sight of the law.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
The fight has been joined though, which is good, But
this is terrible. Listen, listen to this, would you within
you know that causing nontrivial psychological or physicalla and blah
blah blah. Within hours, British ex users were prevented from
watching Conservative MP Katie Lamb talking in Parliament about the
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grooming gangs and seeing footage of the police arresting anti
immigration protesters in Leeds. Lamb posted online she's a uh.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
An MP.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
The British state won't protect children from mass gang rape,
but it will protect adults from hearing about it. You know,
I'm really glad I'm going to be in the UK
in a couple of weeks. I'm going to talk to
everybody i can about these laws get a bunch of
opinions I have. Don't let jitdy if you're listening, turn
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it off, my wife, I have a serious, serious temptation
to deliberately and loudly violate these laws just to see
what happens. I don't care about the show, Jack, I
care about free speech.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
And it'd be awesome for the show and.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
The show the show would be good too. That'd be great.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
No, that would be great. To draw attention to it.
It's horrifying. It is absolutely horrifying, because when free speech goes,
everything goes after that.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Oh yeah, we may be led silent and dumb to
the slaughter. As George Washington put it, Wow, that is wild,
Great Britain of all places. And the utter lack of
interest in covering this by our own horrifying media.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeap, dig it up.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Try to find these stories online. It's hard. I asked
chat GPT. I've done this a couple of times in
recent weeks, because I was listening to a podcast about
a couple of the cases where people got thrown in
jail for tweets, and they only gave me examples on
chat GPT of stuff that's pretty defensible, as throwing people
in jail, like actually inciting violence or something. They didn't
have any of the cases that were squishy, and that
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was in an accident.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And it's worth mentioning that Canada is going in this direction,
as is Australia to some extent, and the fact that
we're not covering this. I mean, it's like the house
next door burning down and us saying, oh, it doesn't matter,
it's the house next door.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah. A guy set a new record for speed on
the Autobahn in Berlin. I've never driven on the auto
Bahn in Berlin, and pretty exciting. This guy set a
new record. Here's going pretty darn fast. And a bunch
of other stuff on the waist here Armstrong, Hey Eddie.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Early this morning there was a somber ceremony not far
from where we are here in.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
The Peace Park.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
But I can tell you now it has gone evening.
There are thousands of people that have lined this river.
They are here to see the Atomic Bomb Dome, which
stands here as it did after his city was attacked.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Eighty year anniversary today of US drop and the first
atomic bomb on Japan, which some Americans believe is a
blotch on our history and an awful thing that we did,
and the rest of us with a brain realized it
was the quickest, best way for us to end the war,
and to not do it would have been malpractice and.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
A war that was horrifically more costly than most Americans realize.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Richard Frank, writing in the National Review today, he wrote
the book Downfall, which I've been reading for quite some time.
Downfall was the name of the UH. You know, they
give names to various operations and plans. Downfall was our
plan for ending it there in Japan, and it was
going to originally include an invasion of Japan, which we
decided against because it would have cost hundreds of thousands
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of US lives and probably killed eventually millions of Japanese
and might not even have been successful. We decided against that.
Then we were going to starve them out, but instead,
because the bomb was work, decided to drop the bomb anyway.
Frank makes the point in his book and in The
National Review today that the Asia Pacific War killed twenty
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five million human beings. Just the Asia Pacific portion of
the war that Japan started against all these different countries
killed tons of Chinese. They were killing people by the thousands.
On the day we dropped the bomb, twenty five percent
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of the dead Chinese were children. For instance. If you're
listening to any media outlets today talk about how awful
it was that Japanese civilians died in that attack when
we dropped the bomb, It is awful, but Japan was
killing people at a much greater rate.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And we're nineteen million dead civilians and Japan was responsible
for most.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Of those, and we're planning to continue it. By the
numbers across China and all other areas subjucated in Japan's empire,
which they did have an empire they were controlling or
at war with nearly half the world's population at the time.
All the areas across Japan's empire, from December forty one
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to August nineteen forty five, about a quarter of a
million non Japanese civilians died every month for forty five months.
Think about that. A quarter of a million non Japanese
civilians died every month for forty five months, or the
equivalent and population of more than forty five Hiroshimas and
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Nagasaki's at the hands of the Japanese military. And that
was going to continue until we defeated.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Them forty five times as many as were killed by
the bombs, and we, the United States of America, are
the bad guys for dropping those bombs to end that slaughter.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
That's what so.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Many people have been taught in recent decades.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
In Vietnam alone, between April and August of forty five,
so this past April to the day, if you're talking
about it, a further million Vietnamese where about two hundred
thousand each month were starving to death at the hands
of the Japanese. That ended when we dropped the bomb.
Credible misreading of history for anybody who doesn't understand that,
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Speaker 2 (35:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty. The McDonald's just unveiled their new adult
happy meal. Between this and Sydney Sweeney, one guy's.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Like best week ever.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Oh, you were just mentioning that McDonald's sales have rebounded
after a tough couple of quarters, which people were using
that as an example of sea people are struggling. They're
pulling back on fast food and credit cards are maxed out.
But McDonald's just bounced back. They are going to announce
an adult happy meal though, featuring either a quarter pound
(00:54):
or with cheese that's my go to, or a ten
piece chicken McNuggets whatever the hell those are fries, a
collectible souvenir, and the new They're Chicken adjacent and the
new Mount McDonald's shake, which features a mystery flavor. The
companies encouraged diners to figure out, Now, that's a funny hook.
(01:14):
See if you can figure out what this flavor is.
We could say that about the hamburgers. I love the taste,
but it don't taste like a Hamburger. It's definitely not Patty's.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We've dropped on the floor and had to do something
with So don't guess that. Okay, it's not come within
a thousand miles of a cow.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's where we'll start.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I kid, of course, it's not a flavor that occurs
in nature.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We'll just give you that him.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
We can, of course, because McDonald's has more lawyers than
than the Onions. A couple of things, A little bit
of breaking news here. So I had the news last
hour that whit Coough Trump's piece deal guy that he's
been sending around the world world. I was over talking
(02:01):
to Putin and the Kremlin announced good news, the meeting
was constructive and useful, and I said, no, it wasn't. No,
it's not. And apparently Trump reacted the same way, because
he announced just a little bit ago there will be
an additional twenty five percent tariff on India as punishment
for importing Russian oil, bringing the total to fifty percent.
(02:23):
To me, that is indicating that he talked to Witcoff
and Whitcoff said he ain't budget, he ain't doing it right.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Sure, Yeah, So the India thing's really interesting. I won't
go off on it. But they're an enormous and growing economy,
you know, an increasingly important presence in the world, and
they're not happy about getting strong armed. And there's some
thought that Trump will not alienate him because they're too
big a prize coming over to our side of the
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ledger and not China's.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So we'll see how this all settles.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, the problem is, I can't come up with an
example of sanctions doing much. They get through. It's amazing
to me that the news media reports sanctions as if
because we all know the history of sanctions is it
always works. It stopped a ran we didn't have to
bomb them. It stopped North Korea, it stopped Russia before
(03:15):
they invaded. It stopped I mean, you could make a
list of milli it stopped I raq you Coulchina. You
could make an endless list of times sanctions have not accomplished.
But why does the media always report it like it's
a thing? When is it been a thing? I've not
seen it ever really work.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, that's a thing. It's just not much of a thing.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Part of the reason is if a country's really committed,
there will they'll know weather the storm along with the
fact that everybody cheats, including even our own allies cheating.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
In December, when the son of the head of the
UN was getting rich on doing unsanctioned business with a rock,
was it or around or both of them?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I mean the UN itself was laughing at it. So
my guess would be putin this, Yeah, go ahead with
their sanctions or whatever. We'll get around them like we
have been doing for three years, or you'll back off
at some point or whatever. Oh no, you have seized yacht.
I have bought three more today. So the war between
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Russian and Ukraine. Many people have commented on this. It
is moved us into a new modern era of warfare
that is different from anything that's occurred in the past,
and there'll be no going back. I mean, how effective
tanks are going to be in the future is up
in the air. Maybe tanks will cease to be a
thing after one hundred years of being one of the
biggest things on the planet because of drones and all
(04:36):
that sort of stuff. You know that. Here was an
interview with a soldier in Ukraine on whether the United
States is ready for modern warfare. You're at the ground
level of this new innovative warfare.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, you're saying the United States is not prepared for
the new era of warfare.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
No, that's already here. Yeah, exactly, No, it's not prepared.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Doesn't see that it can be a problem.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And former Ambassador John Herbst was speaking to that on
News Nation.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
And I think that Soldier is absolutely right that the
cutting edge of war is being displayed right now in Ukraine.
And Ukrainians have been master innovators with drones and electronic warfare.
And we know that our armed services recognize this, and
that's why they are very interested in a drone deal
US in Ukraine for joint production so we can get
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some of this cutting edge technology. But this is very
important for American security and making sure Putin does not
conquer Ukraine is critical for American security.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I hope we make that deal, and I hope we
get the latest technology and spend a lot of time
thinking about it so we don't find ourselves with our
pants down in the next war.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And in return crank out a bunch of them for
Ukraine to use. This is like the basis of a
pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
This is the anniversary of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan,
which they didn't believe we actually had because it was
the latest greatest technology at the time, and reading a
couple of different books over the last few months about
the last few months of the Pacific War, there's all
kinds of things that we had developed and invented between
(06:17):
Pearl Harbor and the end, like there's hardly anything like radar.
I mean, there was so many different things that we
had the edge on over Japan that allowed us to
just at the end we were just able to trounce
them and the technicolo the technological advantage is huge, and
(06:40):
I just I hope we haven't gotten fat and soft
when we find out we're way behind the Chinese or
the Russians or whoever, when the s hits the fan.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I would like to think that our creativity, capability, energy
as a people is just kind of on vacation and
that and this might be too late. Winston Churchill, I
had George Washington talking to us from beyond the grave.
Now it's Winston Churchill's time. Winston would probably say, all right, yeah,
(07:10):
you'd be way smarter off waking up now, but you
won't until the Pooh actually hits the fan.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
But I'd like to think we could reawaken.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But yeah, I've been reading fairmount about our utter horrific
lap lack of shipbuilding and ship repair capability right now.
The statistics for how long it takes a Navy ship
to get back on the water and operating at full
steam is just crazy. And we've got to farm a
lot of it out. We have no institutional knowledge. We
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don't have big ship building crews in New England like
we used to. We've got to ask the South Koreans
to do it for us or whatever. In a lot
of cases, you know, if things got ugly with China
and if it was you know, costly to the Navy,
I think we would find ourselves in awful straits because
they're building ships like lunatics.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
One of the problems with the lessons of World War
One and World War II is kind of putting in
our minds or into the culture the idea that the
good guys ultimately always win. The good guys don't always win. Historically,
lots of times the good guys lose and the awful,
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racist or rapey or whatever they are group wins.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, or even by the time the good guys do win,
when they win, millions of lives have been lost. Yeah,
all sorts of horror and hunger and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, it reminds me. It's one of those things though,
that human nature never changes. We as conservatives, believe that
fervently and human nature is a fat, happy society will
be fat and happy until somebody makes it very, very unhappy,
and then we'll remember, Oh that's right, exercise, toughness, coherence, unity,
(08:58):
I remember those things if we do remember them.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So we got a serious problem in the WNBA. As
fans have decided it's funny. I guess I'm using my
finger quotes. I don't know if they find it amusing
or edgy, but it has become a thing of people
throwing sex toys onto the court at WEDNBA games, and
I think it's a tragedy. I'm not laughed at it
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at all.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's really sullying the sanctity, the purity if you will,
love the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I saw one of the devices that got thrown out
of the court the other day. Somebody sent a picture
of it to me on my phone. My phone alerted
me this is adult content. Are you sure you're ready
to see it? And then I had to click yes,
and then it said after this is what it said
on my phone screen, and it said, after you see this,
(09:53):
if you need help, here's a number you can call. Okay. Yeah, yeah,
I've raised a couple of kids and then I did
the things that caused the kids to exist. So I'm
fatally familiar with a lot of the stuff that it's
involved here. Yeah, helpline, Yeah, I'll tell you what I
just Harrisons, I saw that dildo bouncing around on the.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
W NBA court.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It's just I can't sleep at night. It's all I
see in my dreams. Hello, is this the helpline? Yeah?
I just saw a big green rubber penis and I
just don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What to do. Now, what would you like to do?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Anyway, that's caught on at WAPA games will take on
that problem with many others they too. Hey, oh look out,
something just came until the floor, an object that just
flew in as the free throne is being.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Made.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You look like that hit a player too, So it's
becoming a safety issue. People throwing the sex toys on
the floor at the w NBA Games, And I think
it's a good idea to call it an object. Same
way they used to not show streakers run across the
field because it just.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Encourages them, right right, Yeah, you don't want to give
them the same they're looking for.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, exactly. So anyway, we'll keep an eye on that
very important story of sex toys being thrown on the floor.
Wnba games. I want to mention this. So I bought
a I bought my son's first vehicle the other day,
and I bought it from a guy in the Bay Area,
and I drove her there.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I ubered over.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
To pick it up yesterday and drove it home. Smelly,
a stuba ride I've ever taken in my life. I
don't know what was going on there. I don't know
if a body was deckaying or if it was him
or what. But ooh, that was rough. AnyWho, the guys,
the guy I bought it from, guy bought my age
(11:54):
seemed pretty well to do, but living in a uh
not pretty reticularly well to do a little duplex thingy.
He said, heah, I'm living with my daughter. I had
a house in the Pacific Palisades completely burned to the ground,
and then we got on that whole and I said,
oh jeez, yeah, I phoned it and he ended up
showing me. We end up talking about it for a
(12:15):
long time, and he showed me tons of pictures and videos.
I mean, he was taking pictures and videos while it
was occurring, with the idea that he was going to
be fine. For a couple of different reasons. It was
way over there, and he thought, there's no way it
gets clear over here. Plus he thought, with all these
(12:35):
gazillion dollars homes and some of the masters of the
universe that live in this neighborhood, there's no way the
city is going to let these homes burn down, was
his thinking. And he was standing there wife and kids.
He didn't have kids, but a wife and pets had
taken off and everything like that. He was there with
the hose. He was going to protect his house, and
(12:57):
the cops showed up and said you got to go,
and he went. And he's so thankful that he did,
because the fire quickly overwhelmed everything and burnt everything to
the ground. He has shown me pictures of stuff that
he found in the In the he showed me he
had a cyber truck, like I have a cyber truck,
and he had a cyber truck. It's nothing left but
the stainless steel panels just sitting there on the ground.
(13:19):
Everything else completely disappeared. Showed me up nice he had
a watch collection, a nice watch that he found. It
was just charred. You could kind of tell it was
a watch.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I'll bet more than one person and this is grim sorry,
but has met their end, standing there with a fire
hose as the I'm sorry, with a hose, a consumer
hose as the wall of fire comes towards them, and thinking,
oh my god, I miscalculated.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I almost did myself. If you remember, that's what I
told him about, because he said, he said fire. He said,
I have a new respect for fire, and I said,
the same thing happened to me. I've told the story.
This is before you were here, Katie. But our farm
caught on fire and I had it was a tiny
little fire. I mean it was like three feet in diame,
and I thought, well, I'm going to get a hose,
and so I went and got some hoses and put
them together, and when I turned around, it's a giant fire.
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And then I got the hose stretch over there and
I'm trying to hose it, and before long I was
consumed in smoke and heat and didn't know which direction
was out and which direction was toward the fire, and
fire trucks eventually got there and blah blah blah, my
shoes melted to the payment it was. But yeah, that's
exactly right. You think I'm gonna stop this with this hose,
and the next thing, you know, mother nature does her thing.
(14:27):
And that's what happened with him. But I asked him
the question, of course, of how has it been dealing
with the county and the government and the insurance. He said,
oh please, and he dropped a bunch of f bombs
and his accomplished as zero since that fire. In terms
of trying to get any money. He's living with his daughter,
and he doesn't have any idea if he's going back,
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if he can go back, what kind of money he's
gonna get. Nothing at this point.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I hate to bring politics into this, but I just
happened to read I think it was a National Review
Somebody's writing about how Donald Trump saved Karen Bass's job.
The idiot left the mayor of la who was seriously
on the ropes because of her utterly incompetent, insensitive, dishonest
handling of the wildfire problem, but the high profile immigration
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raids has enabled her to you know, rush to the ramparts,
to play the progressive warrior to protect our immigrant communities,
and it's saved her bacon if you get in, Which
is not to say he shouldn't be deporting people at all,
but it's it's kind of interesting the way those things
can turn out.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh and he sent the National Guard. That was a
good you know, helped rescuer. I guess if you get
into an uber or a lyft and it smells really,
really horrible, what is it most likely the driver?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, in my experience, it's often like they're wearing way
too much cologne or has just coded the place with
some sort of disinfectant deal thing, which is terrible.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Now, this wasn't either one of those. It definitely wasn't cologne,
and it wasn't a stank Huh, it was stank. It
was like, was it like a spill that they didn't
get all the way and went moldy in the car?
Kind of a situation that could happen. I did have
a gallon of milk explode in my truck one time,
and it smelled pretty bad for a long time.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Should have torched it. Speaking of fire, I.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Left it in my truck on accident on a day
when it was one hundred and twelve degrees outside and
it was probably one hundred and fifty inside the truck
and it just burst. And then it was in there
overnight and it smelled so bad. But I eventually lysolded
enough over the period of like a year to get
the smell completely gone. But I think this was the dude,
what would make a human being smell like that? Is
(16:45):
it like a thirty year old dude? What would what
would cause your body.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
To do that?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
What kind of question is that exactly? What's you want
to talk about this on the air? Well? What your
mind are? Are you dying or perhaps?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
But I will not I will not take an uber
ride to this conversation.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Hey Michael, you answer him? No?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
All right? The UK is falling apart our Papa great
for written.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I think I'll talk about my sailing lessons and the
One More Thing podcast. If you've never heard the One
More Thing podcast, you should check it out. Every day
we do a little thing after the show. I noticed
you came to work wearing a sailor suit today. It's
very cute. Call everybody mate coming, Yeah, lovely, I'll look
forward to that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So I happen to hear an ad the other day
for a news service, I guess website, singing app that
will bring you all sorts of news stories and also
includes what percentage of the coverage of them is like
in left wing media or right wing media. And they
gave a couple of examples of one story that was
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ninety seven percent being covered in right wing media conservative media.
And we all know that exists, but one of the
and I may look into it, but man, I don't
get to a quarter of the content I already subscribe
to anyway. I was reminded of that when I saw
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a number of different reports over the incredible unrest in
Great Britain.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Nobody in the mainstream media is talking about this, and
hardly anybody's writing about it because they are intensely uncomfortable
with the themes. We are not intensely uncomfortable with the themes,
as you'll soon find out.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So a couple of things just very quickly.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
This was a story in the Telegraph UK Sharia court
job advertisement deleted from government website. Manchester in the North
of England was looking for a Sharia law administrator to
liaison with the Sharia courts that thes in that area
are running.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Now, uh, okay, you're already into crazyville.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah. But when.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
That came to the attention of people in the media
and all, they quietly took it down. Sharia courts have
existed in the UK since the early nineteen eighties. In
issue Islam Inspired rulings on family life and marriage matters anyway,
really good piece by Dominic Green in the Free Press.
Are these mothers starting a revolt in England? After a
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male migrant sexually assaulted a fourteen year old local girl
in Epping in England, the mothers of the town took
to the streets. Their anger is spreading like wildfire across
the country. Did you know there were large demonstrations and
I think it was twenty two different English cities last weekend. No,
(19:52):
And they go into the background of how the confrontation
because the local socialist the government is opening my centers
and they got the rape gangs and the grooming gangs
off in Pakistani men, et cetera that have become so
controversial in Britain, and the government was actively covering up.
But there was a lot of violence against some of
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the demonstrators, by counterprotesters and by cops, and they make
the point in the free press this writer does, who's
a brit that if if the guy who is run
over by a police van, for instance, wasn't white and
working class, it would have led all the news in
the country all day long, all week long. But it
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really didn't get that much coverage. So yeah, you got
more than twenty towns in cities and cities in England
and Scotland. It was started by a bunch of moms.
Now it's become much more male.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well, I'll tell you my experience of trying to look
into stories like this. If I hear somebody talking about
them and then you try to google it or try
to find it, it's really hard to find information on
this stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, So anyway, he writes about this a lot that
he gets to his main point. The country feels on edge,
and not just because of the cost of living. Frustration
is growing about a two tier justice system that ignores
crime but prosecutes the law abiding for speaking about crime,
Mass immigration, and a loss of social cohesion that's accelerated
(21:23):
a collapse in public trust in the and in the
police and in the government. Serious stuff. And then I
came across this in the Wall Street Journal and this
was written by Dominic Green, and he sets it up,
but we've more or.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Less done that.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And and interestingly he talks about government power and howment
government rotates between parties that agree on the nature of
the regime, hence terms such as unit party, the blob,
and the swamp. Then he gets a little bit into
populism that tries to fight against that when labor and
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now he's.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Talking about Great Britain.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
This is a pretty good summary of what's going on
when Labor suppresses free speech and bad news. And I
know you've been listening and thinking about that too, Jack,
So in just a second we'll get to that when Labor,
the Labor Party suppresses free speech and bad news, panders
to Islamists and environmentalists, and runs a two tier justice system.
It exploits the legislative legacy of the Conservative's fourteen year
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effort to keep the British regime afloat.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The Conservatives initiated.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Speech controls such as public spaces protection orders, under which
Christians have been arrested for silent prayer outside abortion clinics
and non crime hate incidents in which Britain's who speak
out receive home visits from police for posting something online
that the powers that be don't like. Both parties minimize
(22:58):
the systematic rape and track picking of white British girls
by gangs of mostly Pakistani Muslim origin, and both explored
defining Islamophobia in law. The Conservatives also passed the Online
Safety Act. It aims to protect children from pornography and
pro suicide websites. But listen to this, It also includes
a new false communication offense. Social media users can be
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prosecuted for sending messages intended to quote cause non trivial
psychological or physical harm to a likely audience.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Which of course is in the eye of the beholder.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
So starting in late July.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It should be speech is not violence. I don't care
what some people say, well, right, But then when you
write it the way it was written there, not only
is speech violence, but it's like really wide open to.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Interpretation for instance.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So when this part of the Act went into effect
late last month, Twitter users in Britain were blocked from
viewing parliamentary speeches about grooming gangs HM. They were blocked
from sharing footage of police arresting anti immigration protesters.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I can't believe that our mother country where all of
this started, you're not allowed to watch certain arguments your
government is happening.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's right, because they might be offensive to people. The
government is also creating a police unit to monitor groups
organizing protests against two issues on which the regime is
vulnerable mass immigration in the asylum crisis. So they're developing
a department of the cops to monitor, surveil, harass anybody
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who even tweets about an anti grooming gang march or
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well as so, in two thousand and three, they passed
a law making it illegal to send electric messages that
are grossly offensive, in decent, obscene, or menacing. Those are
all ores. You could be any of those indecent, offensive, menacing, obscene,
I mean in the eye to beholder obviously well, and
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anybody's gone through the whole woke nightmare knows that they
pretend to be offended as a weapon. And then they
added in twenty twenty three to that two thousand and
three law new offenses for sending threatening although sometimes they
just interpret criticizing as inherently threatening or false communications with
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the intent to cause harm. You know, and we know
in the United States how things can be deemed false
accusations like I don't think masks work, you know, that
sort of thing, but you do it around maybe racial stuff.
And people have been getting thrown in jail for tweets
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or or Facebook postings and that sort of stuff in
Great Britain, or as Joe said, you get a visit
from people at your house, which has of course a
a quieting effect on people.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Of course, the chief of the Metropolitan Police in London,
i think, threatened to use the full force of the
law to come after non British Internet users who, for instance,
post things that they find objectionable, like on Rumble or
on Reddit. They made threats against Reddit because Reddit was
running comments about the rape gangs or the migrant crisis.
(26:38):
And this guy, mister Green, actually he ends up with
as in Nikolai Chiesheshkw's Romania in nineteen eighty nine, Britain's
people have turned against the regime. The regime is turning
against the people. It can't silence them all. Mister Starmer
and his friends will go down with the ship. Still
unclear what kind of regime can refloat Britain and restore
its traditional freedoms.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Still is coming.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
This guy's a Wall Street Journal contributor and a fellow
of the Royal Historical Society.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
So the breakdown of those speech laws or communication laws
that they passed. These laws focus on online communications intended
to cause harm or distress distress. Wow, so you've got
a law against communications that cause distress. Now that could
be interpreted as anything. And again, I don't think this
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point can be emphasized enough. Pretended distress or working yourself
up into actually being distressed is like the number one
weapon of the neo Marxist woke left. Don't you remember
it doesn't matter how you intended it, it's how I
received it that makes it racist. It's a microaggression that
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is their number one weapon. And then they've got everybody
so terrified of saying the wrong thing. They take over
the institution, they move their own people in. It is
their most potent weapon, and the British freaking government is
playing directly into their hands. Yeah, we're's not as far
down the road as Great Britain. But I remember when
the New York Times declared, Now, I don't know if
they still would believe this. This was back during that
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weird twenty to twenty three period here in this country.
But they in New York Times they said intent does
not matter, right, that which is insane.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Right. And there are.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
People in prison in Britain right now for a single tweet,
for instance, having violated these laws.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Well, man, if it is against the law to send
an online communication that causes distress, yeah, that'd be tough
sight of the law.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
The fight has been joined though, which is good, But
this is terrible. Listen, listen to this, would you within
you know that causing nontrivial psychological or physicalla and blah
blah blah. Within hours, British ex users were prevented from
watching Conservative MP Katie Lamb talking in Parliament about the
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grooming gangs and seeing footage of the police arresting anti
immigration protesters in Leeds. Lamb posted online she's a uh.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
An MP.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
The British state won't protect children from mass gang rape,
but it will protect adults from hearing about it. You know,
I'm really glad I'm going to be in the UK
in a couple of weeks. I'm going to talk to
everybody i can about these laws get a bunch of
opinions I have. Don't let jitdy if you're listening, turn
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it off, my wife, I have a serious, serious temptation
to deliberately and loudly violate these laws just to see
what happens. I don't care about the show, Jack, I
care about free speech.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
And it'd be awesome for the show and.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
The show the show would be good too. That'd be great.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
No, that would be great. To draw attention to it.
It's horrifying. It is absolutely horrifying, because when free speech goes,
everything goes after that.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Oh yeah, we may be led silent and dumb to
the slaughter. As George Washington put it, Wow, that is wild,
Great Britain of all places. And the utter lack of
interest in covering this by our own horrifying media.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeap, dig it up.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Try to find these stories online. It's hard. I asked
chat GPT. I've done this a couple of times in
recent weeks, because I was listening to a podcast about
a couple of the cases where people got thrown in
jail for tweets, and they only gave me examples on
chat GPT of stuff that's pretty defensible, as throwing people
in jail, like actually inciting violence or something. They didn't
have any of the cases that were squishy, and that
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was in an accident.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And it's worth mentioning that Canada is going in this direction,
as is Australia to some extent, and the fact that
we're not covering this. I mean, it's like the house
next door burning down and us saying, oh, it doesn't matter,
it's the house next door.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah. A guy set a new record for speed on
the Autobahn in Berlin. I've never driven on the auto
Bahn in Berlin, and pretty exciting. This guy set a
new record. Here's going pretty darn fast. And a bunch
of other stuff on the waist here Armstrong, Hey Eddie.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Early this morning there was a somber ceremony not far
from where we are here in.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
The Peace Park.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
But I can tell you now it has gone evening.
There are thousands of people that have lined this river.
They are here to see the Atomic Bomb Dome, which
stands here as it did after his city was attacked.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Eighty year anniversary today of US drop and the first
atomic bomb on Japan, which some Americans believe is a
blotch on our history and an awful thing that we did,
and the rest of us with a brain realized it
was the quickest, best way for us to end the war,
and to not do it would have been malpractice and.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
A war that was horrifically more costly than most Americans realize.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Richard Frank, writing in the National Review today, he wrote
the book Downfall, which I've been reading for quite some time.
Downfall was the name of the UH. You know, they
give names to various operations and plans. Downfall was our
plan for ending it there in Japan, and it was
going to originally include an invasion of Japan, which we
decided against because it would have cost hundreds of thousands
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of US lives and probably killed eventually millions of Japanese
and might not even have been successful. We decided against that.
Then we were going to starve them out, but instead,
because the bomb was work, decided to drop the bomb anyway.
Frank makes the point in his book and in The
National Review today that the Asia Pacific War killed twenty
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five million human beings. Just the Asia Pacific portion of
the war that Japan started against all these different countries
killed tons of Chinese. They were killing people by the thousands.
On the day we dropped the bomb, twenty five percent
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of the dead Chinese were children. For instance. If you're
listening to any media outlets today talk about how awful
it was that Japanese civilians died in that attack when
we dropped the bomb, It is awful, but Japan was
killing people at a much greater rate.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And we're nineteen million dead civilians and Japan was responsible
for most.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Of those, and we're planning to continue it. By the
numbers across China and all other areas subjucated in Japan's empire,
which they did have an empire they were controlling or
at war with nearly half the world's population at the time.
All the areas across Japan's empire, from December forty one
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to August nineteen forty five, about a quarter of a
million non Japanese civilians died every month for forty five months.
Think about that. A quarter of a million non Japanese
civilians died every month for forty five months, or the
equivalent and population of more than forty five Hiroshimas and
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Nagasaki's at the hands of the Japanese military. And that
was going to continue until we defeated.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Them forty five times as many as were killed by
the bombs, and we, the United States of America, are
the bad guys for dropping those bombs to end that slaughter.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
That's what so.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Many people have been taught in recent decades.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
In Vietnam alone, between April and August of forty five,
so this past April to the day, if you're talking
about it, a further million Vietnamese where about two hundred
thousand each month were starving to death at the hands
of the Japanese. That ended when we dropped the bomb.
Credible misreading of history for anybody who doesn't understand that,
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