January 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- D.E.I. impact on CA wildfires & climate change
- The cost of attending the Trump inauguration
- The ceasefire deal & the BMI measurement is BS
- Gender Bending Madness with a twist!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
In defending his fire response, Governor k Newsom sent people
to a d NC fundraising site. He also defended his
homeless policy with a coupon for tents.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We got some fire stuff and newsome rules and all
that sort of stuff for you that I think are
interesting whether wherever you live. But a couple of breaking
news things that are happening in the final days of
the Biden administration. He went down to five days.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Left, thank goodness.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The FDA announced red dye number whatever needs to come
out of food. So get used to gray skittles. I guess,
like you know, enjoy it. I don't know if for
a dye whatever is hurting us or not, But no
more of that in food starting in twenty twenty seven.
And also they're going to limit the amount of nicotine
that's allowed in cigarettes. Will be the first country in
the world to do that. It's going to be a
(01:16):
low level of nicotine you're allowed to put in cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
And it's far below existing cigarettes. And I've heard it
claim that this is essentially a cigarette ban.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I don't know much about that, but if it's if
you're a smoker, so you're going to have to smoke
like five cigarettes to get the nicotine fix you usually
get from one to be able to steady your hands enough.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
To go to work, or they're by damaging your lungs.
It's also the point's been made that this will be
an unbelievable opportunity for the Mexican cartels.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh wow, black market cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, I am mostly.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You know, personal choice liberty guy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
The fact that cigarettes still exists as a product though
it is really quite amazing. There's no unlike you know.
I mean, it's not the same as booze or anything else.
There's no reason to smoke cigarettes for them to exist
as a product you can buy at the store.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I don't know. If I enjoy it, that's reason enough,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The oll kid, I separate that from huff and paint
and special chemists that are easier to fit around your nose.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, I see your point.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And the other aspect of this which is so frustrating
those of us, to those of us who love liberty,
is that to the extent that we're becoming a socialized
country and I have to bail you out if you
make terrible life choices again and again and again.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That at some.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Point gives me the right to dictate your life choice.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Not I would much rather tend to the problems of
too much liberty and too little.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
To paraphrase Jefferson, that's a one true.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
But man, what angled web we weave when first we
choose to be socialist?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Because that is very true.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
If I'm paying for your incredible number and expense of
health problems because you smoke, then I should have some say.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But I don't like going down that road.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I agree completely, So so much to talk about in
terms of the southern California wildfires. Then we'll move on
to other fair including the transition, the inauguration, and just
all sorts of stuff. Also, a great couple of blows
has been struck have been struck against gender bending madness
in recent days. You have not heard about this because
(03:35):
the bigfoot media hasn't reported it because they're not happy
with it. But dudes competing in women's sports, Yeah, hey, Sun,
go play on the boys team. More news on that
to come a couple of things to do with wildfire
though that I wanted to get on.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
We've referenced this, I wanted to get to it specifically.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Twenty nineteen, a public relations video put out by the
LA Fire Department's head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Deputy
Chief Christine Larson, said that she was explaining why it
was so important that we have an equitable number of
women firefighters, because that's you know, firefighting, the Marines, they're
(04:18):
all jobs programs. They're not like task specific, you know,
occupations that demand certain qualifications. No, they're just ni social
experiment anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, in the weird belief in disparate impact, So if
you don't have fifty to fifty men and women, clearly
you're cheating the system.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Somehow, that didn't end up that way.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
One of the dumbest, least defensible doctrines I've ever heard
of in my life.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And there are quite a.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Few people who've served on the Supreme Court that believe
in disparate impact. If there's a different difference and outcome,
that's proof of racism, it's idiotic or sexism or all right. Yeah,
as I've said before, if my dog has spoused that view,
I would hit them with a roll up news so
dumb anyway, So LA's DEI chief Deputy Chief Christine Larson said.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
And if they recruit an equitable number of women and
she's not strong enough to lift a man out of
a burning building, well, and I quote, he got himself
in the wrong place.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Maybe the hypothetical man burned in the fire will make
better life choices next time.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, that comment got a lot of It happened on
Friday and got a lot of attention for the weekend.
I didn't even understand what she was trying to say.
She must have said it poorly or something. What does
that mean?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Now? That was in a video they put out intentionally
in twenty nineteen. It just came out Friday and made
that attention. Everybody was talking about it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So, but what did they mean that. I don't even
understand what that means.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
What she's saying is I will translate, because I've studied
these people to the point of frustration.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The main thing is equity.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
We must have an equitable number of women, and if
you point out a problem with that, that problem is
the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The equity is not the problem.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
The fact that women can't lift a large man out
of a fire is proof that that man is too
large and should be less large.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
All okay, okay, did didn't I didn't take it that way.
I thought they meant that you're in the wrong place.
It's like you should have been in it. I don't know,
had your house catch on fire in a district where
they didn't have an out of shape lesbian.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Well, no, it's it's it's nonsense. It's that's as we
were discussing yesterday. The romantic point of view is all
that matters is my feelings, and I feel this to
my bones. So there's no facts you can bring me
that will change my mind. And I don't even want
to hear them.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's just childish.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
She also maintained the same nut job Deputy Chief Christine Larson,
You are a nutjob.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Lady also maintained.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
That people want to see someone responding to emergency who
looks to an emergency, who looks like you, and the
National Review points out, yeah, if a Filipino immigrants house
is saved by the LAFD in recent days, homeowner didn't say, oh,
thank goodness, but I wish at least one Pacific islander
was on the crew. Nobody ever said that in the
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history of mankind God, these people are lunatics. They shouldn't
be in charge of anything anyway. I just want to
touch on that briefly. All sorts of news outlets, The
Sacramento Bee, which is the Sacramento Bee, which is the
paper record in the capitol of California, PBS, NBC Los Angeles,
New York Times, all with headlines climate change fueled LA wildfires.
(07:37):
Experts say, as we've been discussing in recent days, virtually
every expert is a college professor quote unquote expert.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's a college professor.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And what are ninety seven percent of college professors progressives?
So these experts always have progressive views. Here's another one.
Warming climate created perfect storm for catastrophic fires. The clear
link between the California wildfire and climate change. That's NBC
New York Times. The California wildfires are the latest disaster.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Supercharged by climate change.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Extreme weather events, deadly heat waves, floods, fires, hurricanes are
the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say, But as
they point out in the California Globe, claiming that these
fires are because a climate change is patently absurd. I
don't think anyone who just watched their home, neighborhood, and
their kids' school burned to the ground is thinking that
damned climate change.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Because climate change.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Is a catch all for dull and deceitful politicians and
low information journalists to cover for their incompetence and corruption,
and it explains everything and excuses everything. Anthony Watts a meteorologist.
He's got his website Watts up with that he is
a non climate cultist. He explained why climate change did
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not cause these last fires, and this is the main point.
The current fires, like many before them, are largely driven
by well documented weather phenomenon, historical land use patterns, and
human decisions, not by a nebulous, haul and compassing narrative
of climate factors. California's relationship with fire predates the Industrial
Revolution and certainly modern climate discussions. Historical records and studies
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consistent consistently demonstrate that large wildfires have been a natural
part of the state's ecosystem for millennia. You can look
at a chart of wildfires, rainfall, and droughts going back
to the nineteenth century when some of these records were
first kept, and you see every sort of year and
every sort of pattern.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
As Tom McClintock told us yesterday as a congress person
from California who's on the committees that look at this
sort of stuff, they know how many acres used to
burn way back in the day, and it.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Was a lot, right, And then where is that? There's
one more story. There's a new term that's flying around
that you're gonna hear. It has to do with the
hydration whiplash or something like that. It's the dry years
followed by wet years. T Ration whiplash is part of
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climate change. So they're trying to get that one going.
It's it's ridiculous. And as the point has been made
by several different folks, including ourselves, if you are absolutely
sold on the idea that climate change is with us
and it's causing wildfires and the rest of it, then
why are you so damn unprepared? You spend all your
(10:22):
time talking about how climate change is ruining everything, and
then you say, well, we couldn't be prepared because a
climate change, Yeah, which is it? Uh?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Dozens of suspected looters have been arrested so far praying
on really expensive neighborhoods where people have been ordered to evacuate.
So the government tells you you have to leave, you leave,
And then does the government do a good job at
keeping scumbags from coming in and stealing all your stuff.
That's a really maddening situation. But I'm looking this picture
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of all the people that they have arrested.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
It.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You know you want you want to you want a
group of people that looks like America. To a certain extent,
this group looks like America, all kinds of different shades
and hues of human being that are scumbags will come
steal your stuff in a crisis.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Evidently there's diversity, equity, and inclusion among looters who should
all be beaten. The term I was looking for, Jack
is hydro climate whiplash. Hydro climate whiplash. I will start
throwing that around, please do.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And then Governor k Newsom yesterday signed an executive order
prohibiting greedy land developers from ripping off LA wildfire victims
with unsolicited, undervalued offers to buy their destroyed property, et cetera,
et cetera. Karen Bass weighed in on hotels are not
allowed to raise their rates a certain amount. Jonah Goldberg
of The Dispatch tweeted out those stories and said, I
(11:43):
think this is profoundly immorally stupid. It's a waste of
government time and resources, an unnecessary impediment to economic recovery,
condescending nanism and demagogic policy.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Agreed every word, every long word.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, government starts getting involved in that sort of thing,
and interested distorts every level of everything.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Right coming up later in the hour, later in the
show in defense of gouging. And also the homeowners who
have said, yeah, I know we're supposed to have evacuated,
I'm staying here with my gun guarding my home, thank
you very much, and their interesting relationship with law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I want to Trump's inauguration, first term and the fancy
ball and everything like that. You gotta write a big
check to get in this time around, among the things
we've got to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I hope you can stay here. President elect Trump's.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Inauguration is just a few days away.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I saw that.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Will all be in attendance.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
The three richest men in the world all in one place. Man,
If you thought Bernie Sanders looks miserable at the last inauguration.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
When a Democrat is inaugurated, it's full of Hollywood stars.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
But that's just cool. It's just cool that Hollywood stars
are there. If you got three people who've accomplished something.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And happen to get really rich from it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That there's an implication that something evil and untoward is happening.
They never I've noticed none of these stories connect any dots,
like make any statements.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Just the three richest men will be sitting again, Oh
my god, and finish your sentence, and they're going to do
what Barnie is gonna have to.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Bernie is gonna have to clap his hand hwn mittens
over his ears. He's going to be so disgusted by
the proceedings. Speaking of the first go round for Trump,
the first inauguration, we've been discussing at times lately the
fact that there's a very different feel in this transition.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Noat in twenty sixteen, it.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Was he's an illegitimate president. He won't even get inaugurated,
he's a Russian stooge. Wait till that brave investigation gets going.
I heard James Kobe yesterday and it just it was
all phony and really, you know, queered the beginning of
the Trumpet mattrols something he had to fight the whole time. Anyway,
it's a very very different field this time around, where
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not only did he obviously win legitimately, but big and
and you know, the the festivities are in full swing.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
There is full blown fomo.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Slash status seeking going on in terms of the inauguration
to an unbelievable extent. CEOs are angling for invites to
parties which include the Maha Bowl Ball and another featuring
Snoop dog who is the U two of the twentieth century.
You can't swing a dead cat without seeing Snoop Dogg
(14:44):
on the TV. What's the Maha Ball Make America Healthy
Again ball? But nature of it, I don't know. I
don't know why. But why is it so hot? Because
the RFK Junior is gonna be there? Yeah, And that's
kind of just hot among a certain crowd of Americans.
But eight years of go Trump's inauguration smashed fundraising efforts
drew in high dollar donors across corporate spectrum. This month's
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event will make the twenty seventeen affair look.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Like a bake sale. Really interesting corporate.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Interest in Donald Trump's inauguration has grown so intense that
allies of the president of elect have been soliciting ten
to fifteen million dollar donations. Those are individual donations to
spread across various Trump groups. According to people familiar with fundraising,
some high six figure donors have asked consultants to help
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them get in the door and been turned away. Wow
or wait listed. Listen if a ticket shakes loose, I'll
call you. Thanks for your eight hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I give you eight hundred thousand, and they can't get
in the door.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
The inaugurations raised more than two hundred million dollars so far,
could double what it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Raised eight years ago.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
And they name check various crypto companies and JP Morgan, Chase,
As McDonald's, del To Airlines, Lockheed Martin, Johnson, Johnson, all
giving a million dollars more. This is not unique to Trump,
of course, not every inauguration and every fundraising for presidential
library is legalized bribery. It's absolutely, unquestionably bribery.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Obviously it is. It's funny, no more, people don't talk
about that or call it that. Obviously it is. Why'd
you donate millions of dollars to the Presidential Library because
you just really like books for that particular president or documents.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Now no, I like.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Get nice diorama and they don't come cheap. You're hoping
to get a meeting. I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I was at the main ball for Trump in twenty sixteen,
twenty seventeen, but when he was elected inaugurated, and the
food there was spectacular.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I mean it was one you sneak in. How'd you
get in?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Somebody snuck me in. Yes, I did not have a ticket.
Somebody snuck me in it because I mean it was
the highest off high rollers in there. But it was
the best buffet I've ever had. I mean, the food
was really good, as you would exact, I don't doubt it.
I spent a lot of time lingering over the food.
Other people seemed like they were used to that sort
of chow, but I was really enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Coming up in defense of gouging, microplastics are ruining your
life and much more.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Fire strong and getty.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Two US officials say Israel and Hamas have agreed on
core elements of a ceasefire and the release of dozens
of hostages. According to people familiar with the negotiations. Both
sides are working to overcome minors details, but don't believe
any sticking points will derail progress. The details of a
potential deal are broken up into three main phases, starting
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with the release of thirty three hostages, including at least
two Americans, over the next forty two days. Israeli forces
would withdraw from passive Gaza and allow much needed aid
in The Biden administration cut our Egypt, and the incoming
Trump administration all involved.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
This deal appears close, but a.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Reminder that Prime Minister Nashanyahu still has to get it,
his security cabinet and his governments to get the Green Knights.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I did read something the other day about the level
of coordination between the incoming Trump team and the outgoing
Biden team is really high on a couple of different
things that are going on right now, at a at
a level you wouldn't necessarily think based on the way
our politics are.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, yeah, because that should be what's happened.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Joe Biden is making noises trying to make this be
like the you know, the the end triumph or of
a long career in public service, him getting the hostages
out and cease fire deal I don't think it's going
to land that way. I think it's going to land
as Okay, they're scared of Trump. They weren't scared of him,
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and now they're they're actually going to do it. I
think it's going to be seen as a Trump win
rather than a Biden win.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I don't disagree with a syllable of that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I also think, so why why do wars come to
an end when when one or both sides are exhausted and.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Hamas definitely exhausted.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And I think some of this is just guests, some
of it based on you know, the reporting that's out there.
I think Israel's hell bent on, probably with the help
of the United States, in a major attack on Iran
to take out that nuclear weapons facility where they're just
a couple of weeks away from a nuclear weapon if
they decide they want it. And Man I was talking
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to or I wasn't talking to him.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I wish I was.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
We should try to see if we could get General
Petraeus on Hanson. He's got a book out, so he's
probably making the round anyway. I heard him on a
podcast the other day saying it has absolutely got to
be the policy of the United States as it has
been for a long time, that Iran does not get
a nuclear weapon, because that would just change all of
the formulas for the way everything is done in the
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Middle least going forward.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
And there's virtually nobody on earth who disagrees with that,
no significant power, I mean, Russia is in bed with
Iran right now. But Putin' scotten no love for lunatic fundamentalists.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
She Muslims, and he's kind of busy, and Iran will.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
As we we talked with Ian Bremmer last week, Iran
has never been this week. They'll never be weaker. There's
never been a better time than to do it now.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So I think that's one of the reasons that Israel
is willing to because that's a heck of a deal
they're willing willing to make. Right now, you're gonna give
us back the remaining live people in a bunch of
dead bodies. Few people. We're going to kill you all.
But I think they're making this deal because they've got
bigger fish to fry.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Well see, at least, yeah, it might buy them a
little bit of time to you know, reposition and reassess
the thing that Lord knows, I can't tell bb net
and Yahoo anything about this topic because he knows already
is that Hamas is fundamentally a fundamentalist Islamic organization, and
it is written enshrined in the Quran and tradition that
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to deceive your enemies is honorable. I mean if it
results in Allah's victory and in further conquest, and then
that to be utterly dishonest and deceptive is perfectly fine.
It's not like our cute Western ethics. So he and
I would go into this agreement saying, all right, these
guys are going to break every single facet of this
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and cheat on every single facet of it the first
moment it becomes possible.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So it's a lovely little agreement. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Well.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I didn't fully understand this too, I read the Woodward book.
Then I think it came up with somebody we were
talking to the other day when Iran launched all those
drones at Israel and then Israel had to respond. They responded,
and most of the reporting was okay, it was a gesture.
They didn't hit anybody. It was just a they had
to do it to save face, blah blah. They took
out all of Iran's most sophisticated anti aircraft weaponry that
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Russia had given them. That's what they did, which was
absolutely laying the groundwork for the coming attack. I think,
with the help of the United States to really take
out that nuclear facility, Iran is defenseless right now.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I was just going to say, at the very least,
it was sending the message, all right, we just made
you defenseless.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Do not mess with us. Do not mess with us again.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
How much how much of a heart ass is Trump
going to look like if he gets this ceasepire thing
between Hamas and Israel, and Israel has a successful attack
with our help on Irand to take out the facility,
that'll send a message around the world.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It absolutely will. Yeah, we'll see. You know.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
The great disconnect between a lot of folks on the
MAGA side of things and just people in general is
they don't understand to be quote unquote militaristic, to beef
up your military, to project strength, to project heart assishness,
to quote my colleague mister Armstrong here, that prevents war,
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that stops people from dying in war. If you are
so formidable and so clearly willing to.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Use your power. You don't have to. That's the point
sophists get in fights.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Looking up at the TVCBS News going with a redefining
obesity story. Now we're moving away from the BMI scale,
I'll have to dig into that a lot. I need
to scale that says better things about me. It says
nice with things, uses kinder words than the BMI, which
calls us all heavy. Well, a lot of us are heavy, right,
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but you know, we all know the BMI thing is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, if you are like at the
beginning of the obese section of the BMI scale, i'd
really because you don't.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Have to be very heavy at all.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
No, I really like to know how how seriously are
your health outcomes being you know, affected by your being
twenty pounds over your ideal weight. And I tell you what,
just for an example, I've been fat, I've been thin.
You know, when I was like in the greatest shape
of my adult life, when I lost all that weight.
I was down to one sixty eight, was seventy eight
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something like that at five eleven, and I was just
in great shape and I was still overweight according to
the scale.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, I think I'm supposed to be one seventy five
and I would be a stick person. I mean, people
would ask me, I be whispering behind me, is he okay?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yes, it is cancer come back.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
If I was one seventy five, right right, So anyway,
rejigger it fine, get back to me when you're when
you're done. I'm trying not to get I'm trying to
maintain a reasonable weight.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, I'm doing pretty good on the no bake goods
or at least no uh no donut So that my
my nieces came up with this standard, which is pretty
good because I was trying to figure out.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Like do pancakes count as a big good? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
They If you could get it at a bake sale,
it's a bake good. If you can't, it's not was there.
So that's that's worked pretty well for me.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, I like it. It's very homespun.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Yeah, Like I had pancakes there today, you wouldn't get
those at a bake sale. I'm not gonna go crazy
with pancakes like I do donuts. I'm not gonna pick
up pancakes on the way home and eat them in
my car.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Probably. Yeah, he never know though, you know it's it's
kind of an artificial dividing line. But I get it.
It works. What do you think, Katie, I think I'm
slashing it too thin.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I think the man that pulled a fork out of
his suit pocket so he could eat a pie in
his car might.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Get a stack of pancakes and eat it in there
as well.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I have to keep an eye on myself if I start,
if I start eating pancakes in my car, I have
my fork right here.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Well, it's not he has a fork on him, Folks,
nobody carries a fork. I give you seen Swiss army
lot knives that have forty seven different implements.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
They don't eat well, sometimes they do. Include This is
a full.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Metal table fork that I keep in my jacket bucket
in case I find myself with a pie or something.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yes, Michael, Yes, I'm just in disbelief. That's what. You
just waved it around yourself, proud of it.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I know it's odd, isn't it? As fork will travel?
Where were we we were talking about something important?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I believe, Oh that's right. We're on obesity, right, Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The confirmation hearings that are going on today live If
anything exciting happens, I'll let you know about it. My
current position is, Pam Bondi is too hot to be
Attorney General. I just think it's I think it's off
putting somehow. Wow, I think you can serious mad men
around here. It's hard to take her seriously.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Also in defensive looting and an encouraging gender bending madness update.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Like that, Like that, things are going.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
The wind is definitely blowing the right direction on that topic,
no doubt about it. We've got a lot more on
the waist to hear.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Starbucks is rolling out a new policy that requires people
to buy something if they want to use the bathroom. Meanwhile,
at Duncan Donuts, you're free to go to the bathroom
while standing in line.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
The CEO of Duncan said, anybody can come in, but
you've got to punch the biggest guy in here to
establish yourself.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I have been in a number of Dunkin locations throughout
our beautiful nation and have not found it to be
excrement screwn, strewn prison like in any way.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Once again, Starbucks twisting themselves into knots trying to deal
with the street people problem without saying out loud, we're
changing our rules because of the street people problem. That's why, hey, city,
stop having drug addicts hang around everywhere coming. I wish
they just I wish all these businesses would just say
out loud while they're why they're changing their policies. Yeah,
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I agree one percent.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
I think Starbucks is one of the few that would
be vulnerable to the online fever pitch in the crowd.
Most companies should just ignore those people. They're few in number,
they're pissed off about, so that they'll be pissed off
about something different tomorrow. Don't worry about it, but Starbucks
could actually get hurt by the young woke lunatics.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Got this text I wanted to read. My dad and
I have loved your show for many years. He unfortunately
passed away this weekend, but you always brought a smile
to his face right up to the end with your
intelligence and humor. Keep fighting the good fight, Andy from
the OC Orange County.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Well thanks, Andy, and we're sorry for your loss. Obviously.
That's that's very touching. Yeah wow ah, so are we ready? Michael?
It's a gender bending madness update, but a twist for
what much.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
More hope than outrage this time around. Check the neck.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
We don't need to go there. Michael's sleep at the switch.
Dealing with the technical problem. I apologize, audience.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
We're vesting that though a couple of these stories are
quite significant, indeed they're getting no attention because they are very,
very uncomfortable to the mainstream media. On Thursday, a federal
judge in Kentucky issued a nationwide block to the Biden
administration's Title nine rewrite, which made gender identity a protected
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characteristic under the Education Amendment of the nineteen sixty four
Civil Rights Act, and that would have required schools and
colleges to give trans identifying biological men also known as men.
It's the only kind of man. There is, a biological man.
Don't bother with the term anyway. It would give trans
identifying men access to women's sports spaces and scholarship.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It would have been a mess. I mean, it would
have unleashed.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It would have been like that Grant's pass reeling ruling
what it did to homelessness.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
If this had gone the other direction on the trains thing, just.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It would have been devastating, Yeah, devastating and just bizarre
and just completely country victory to the idea of Title nine,
which was we've got to protect women's sports and make
sure women have equal opportunities. Well they don't if dudes
can just say, yeah, I'm a chick now and play
against them anyway, the court wrote in its ruling, quote,
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when Title nine is viewed in its entirety, it is
abundantly clear that discrimination on the basis of sex means
discrimination on the basis of being male or female. And
in spite of radical gender shit, stop using gendered language
which would have been laughed out of any sane conversation
eight years ago, ten years ago, but is now being
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taught in your children's school.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You don't get to choose whether you're a male or
a female.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
You can throw on a dress their sweetheart, but you're
still a dude as far as the law is concerned.
At least anyway, Well done to the judge in Kentucky.
We'll see where that goes. Also, here's a story that's
actually from the New York Times in some great commentary
from our friend Paolo. But a divided House on Tuesday
approved legislation that aims to bar transgender women and girls,
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they're boys and men.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
We have words for that.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Men and boys from participating in school athletic programs designated
for female students. As republic this is great. This is
such a Republican's pounce style sentence. As Republicans sought to
ring political opportunity from a social issue that helped them
win the twenty twenty four elections. Wow, boy, I could
teach a college class on that sentence. Kidding all right,
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First of all, as Republicans sought to ring political opportunity,
or Republicans sought to not have dudes raping girls and
women in prisons, or raping in a molesting girls in
locker rooms, or and this is plenty making women intensely
uncomfortable because men have been permitted to be in their
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locker rooms watching them dress and shower, attempting to ring
political opportunity.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Well, then the rest of the sentence, yes.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, the rest of the sentence where they say and
it worked basically, So then in what way are you
ringing opportunity out of something that America agreed with?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Well, right, exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
They characterized it as a social issue that helped them
win the twenty twenty four elections.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
How do you win elections.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
In our system, New York Times, what do you have
to have a majority of Yeah, people who agree with you. Now, Interestingly,
as our friend Powloll points out, the bill, well, this
is still the New York Times approved. Improved, approved, almost
entirely along party lines on a vote of two eighteen
to two oh six, would prohibit federal funding from going
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to K through twelve schools and include transgender students.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Dudes.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Again, we have a word for that already, it's fellas
on women's sports teams.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Use gendered language to address everyone.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
It faces a steep challenge in the Senate, where seven
Democrats would have to join Republicans to move it past
to Philbuster into a final vote. Well, i'll tell you
what you want to talk about, Republicans pouncing or ringing
political opportunity when you can't get more than I'd guess
a handful of Democrats to say, Hey, dudes, raping women
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in prison ain't cool. We're going to ring a hell
of a lot more political opportunity from that, because it's
blanking insane.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
So most of those Democrats don't agree with this policy.
They're just scared of the the online Twitter wing of
the Democratic Party and how they'd come after them, which
is the way politics works. But when it's on the
Republican side, senators are only doing that because they're scared
of the maga world, it's somehow awful and evil and scary.
But when Democratic senators are voting in a certain way
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because they're scared of you know, lefty nut job Twitter world.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
It's right, it's what well.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Interestingly, there was a big BBC survey in Britain sent
to hundreds and hundreds of athletes, female athletes, that asked
several questions about transgenderal athletes dudes competing in women's sports,
and an uncomfortable majority said they felt very uncomfortable about
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transgender athletes, but quite a few said they were very
hesitant to say what they thought because of fears of abuse.
Are being considered discriminatory. That is the extent to which
a very small minority of lunatics have intimidated so many
of us, and my gosh, I feel for the women
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who are have been intimidated into silence. I have much
more on the unbelievable record. It's sickening of there are
something like twenty five hundred dudes in women's prisons right
now because they claim to be a girl.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And the rape and the.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Pregnancies and sexually assault, the sexual assaults are rampant.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But we don't have time. That's the end of your
gender bending madness. Update. What were we going to do?
An hour three? You had something good. We're putting off.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Number one LA area residents who are defying the evacuation
band to guard their homes, sometimes at gunpoint, and also
in defense of gouging.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
All right, yeah, yeah, If you haven't heard this argument,
it will change your view on this topic.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Perhaps, did you miss a good podcast Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
In defending his fire response, Governor k Newsom sent people
to a d NC fundraising site. He also defended his
homeless policy with a coupon for tents.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We got some fire stuff and newsome rules and all
that sort of stuff for you that I think are
interesting whether wherever you live. But a couple of breaking
news things that are happening in the final days of
the Biden administration. He went down to five days.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Left, thank goodness.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The FDA announced red dye number whatever needs to come
out of food. So get used to gray skittles. I guess,
like you know, enjoy it. I don't know if for
a dye whatever is hurting us or not, But no
more of that in food starting in twenty twenty seven.
And also they're going to limit the amount of nicotine
that's allowed in cigarettes. Will be the first country in
the world to do that. It's going to be a
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low level of nicotine you're allowed to put in cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
And it's far below existing cigarettes. And I've heard it
claim that this is essentially a cigarette ban.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I don't know much about that, but if it's if
you're a smoker, so you're going to have to smoke
like five cigarettes to get the nicotine fix you usually
get from one to be able to steady your hands enough.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
To go to work, or they're by damaging your lungs.
It's also the point's been made that this will be
an unbelievable opportunity for the Mexican cartels.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh wow, black market cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, I am mostly.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You know, personal choice liberty guy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
The fact that cigarettes still exists as a product though
it is really quite amazing. There's no unlike you know.
I mean, it's not the same as booze or anything else.
There's no reason to smoke cigarettes for them to exist
as a product you can buy at the store.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I don't know. If I enjoy it, that's reason enough,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The oll kid, I separate that from huff and paint
and special chemists that are easier to fit around your nose.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, I see your point.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And the other aspect of this which is so frustrating
those of us, to those of us who love liberty,
is that to the extent that we're becoming a socialized
country and I have to bail you out if you
make terrible life choices again and again and again.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That at some.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Point gives me the right to dictate your life choice.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Not I would much rather tend to the problems of
too much liberty and too little.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
To paraphrase Jefferson, that's a one true.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
But man, what angled web we weave when first we
choose to be socialist?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Because that is very true.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
If I'm paying for your incredible number and expense of
health problems because you smoke, then I should have some say.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But I don't like going down that road.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I agree completely, So so much to talk about in
terms of the southern California wildfires. Then we'll move on
to other fair including the transition, the inauguration, and just
all sorts of stuff. Also, a great couple of blows
has been struck have been struck against gender bending madness
in recent days. You have not heard about this because
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the bigfoot media hasn't reported it because they're not happy
with it. But dudes competing in women's sports, Yeah, hey, Sun,
go play on the boys team. More news on that
to come a couple of things to do with wildfire
though that I wanted to get on.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
We've referenced this, I wanted to get to it specifically.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Twenty nineteen, a public relations video put out by the
LA Fire Department's head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Deputy
Chief Christine Larson, said that she was explaining why it
was so important that we have an equitable number of
women firefighters, because that's you know, firefighting, the Marines, they're
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all jobs programs. They're not like task specific, you know,
occupations that demand certain qualifications. No, they're just ni social
experiment anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, in the weird belief in disparate impact, So if
you don't have fifty to fifty men and women, clearly
you're cheating the system.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Somehow, that didn't end up that way.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
One of the dumbest, least defensible doctrines I've ever heard
of in my life.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And there are quite a.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Few people who've served on the Supreme Court that believe
in disparate impact. If there's a different difference and outcome,
that's proof of racism, it's idiotic or sexism or all right. Yeah,
as I've said before, if my dog has spoused that view,
I would hit them with a roll up news so
dumb anyway, So LA's DEI chief Deputy Chief Christine Larson said.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
And if they recruit an equitable number of women and
she's not strong enough to lift a man out of
a burning building, well, and I quote, he got himself
in the wrong place.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Maybe the hypothetical man burned in the fire will make
better life choices next time.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, that comment got a lot of It happened on
Friday and got a lot of attention for the weekend.
I didn't even understand what she was trying to say.
She must have said it poorly or something. What does
that mean?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Now? That was in a video they put out intentionally
in twenty nineteen. It just came out Friday and made
that attention. Everybody was talking about it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So, but what did they mean that. I don't even
understand what that means.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
What she's saying is I will translate, because I've studied
these people to the point of frustration.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
The main thing is equity.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
We must have an equitable number of women, and if
you point out a problem with that, that problem is
the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The equity is not the problem.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
The fact that women can't lift a large man out
of a fire is proof that that man is too
large and should be less large.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
All okay, okay, did didn't I didn't take it that way.
I thought they meant that you're in the wrong place.
It's like you should have been in it. I don't know,
had your house catch on fire in a district where
they didn't have an out of shape lesbian.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Well, no, it's it's it's nonsense. It's that's as we
were discussing yesterday. The romantic point of view is all
that matters is my feelings, and I feel this to
my bones. So there's no facts you can bring me
that will change my mind. And I don't even want
to hear them.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's just childish.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
She also maintained the same nut job Deputy Chief Christine Larson,
You are a nutjob.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Lady also maintained.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
That people want to see someone responding to emergency who
looks to an emergency, who looks like you, and the
National Review points out, yeah, if a Filipino immigrants house
is saved by the LAFD in recent days, homeowner didn't say, oh,
thank goodness, but I wish at least one Pacific islander
was on the crew. Nobody ever said that in the
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history of mankind God, these people are lunatics. They shouldn't
be in charge of anything anyway. I just want to
touch on that briefly. All sorts of news outlets, The
Sacramento Bee, which is the Sacramento Bee, which is the
paper record in the capitol of California, PBS, NBC Los Angeles,
New York Times, all with headlines climate change fueled LA wildfires.
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Experts say, as we've been discussing in recent days, virtually
every expert is a college professor quote unquote expert.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's a college professor.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And what are ninety seven percent of college professors progressives?
So these experts always have progressive views. Here's another one.
Warming climate created perfect storm for catastrophic fires. The clear
link between the California wildfire and climate change. That's NBC
New York Times. The California wildfires are the latest disaster.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Supercharged by climate change.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Extreme weather events, deadly heat waves, floods, fires, hurricanes are
the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say, But as
they point out in the California Globe, claiming that these
fires are because a climate change is patently absurd. I
don't think anyone who just watched their home, neighborhood, and
their kids' school burned to the ground is thinking that
damned climate change.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Because climate change.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Is a catch all for dull and deceitful politicians and
low information journalists to cover for their incompetence and corruption,
and it explains everything and excuses everything. Anthony Watts a meteorologist.
He's got his website Watts up with that he is
a non climate cultist. He explained why climate change did
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not cause these last fires, and this is the main point.
The current fires, like many before them, are largely driven
by well documented weather phenomenon, historical land use patterns, and
human decisions, not by a nebulous, haul and compassing narrative
of climate factors. California's relationship with fire predates the Industrial
Revolution and certainly modern climate discussions. Historical records and studies
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consistent consistently demonstrate that large wildfires have been a natural
part of the state's ecosystem for millennia. You can look
at a chart of wildfires, rainfall, and droughts going back
to the nineteenth century when some of these records were
first kept, and you see every sort of year and
every sort of pattern.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
As Tom McClintock told us yesterday as a congress person
from California who's on the committees that look at this
sort of stuff, they know how many acres used to
burn way back in the day, and it.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Was a lot, right, And then where is that? There's
one more story. There's a new term that's flying around
that you're gonna hear. It has to do with the
hydration whiplash or something like that. It's the dry years
followed by wet years. T Ration whiplash is part of
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climate change. So they're trying to get that one going.
It's it's ridiculous. And as the point has been made
by several different folks, including ourselves, if you are absolutely
sold on the idea that climate change is with us
and it's causing wildfires and the rest of it, then
why are you so damn unprepared? You spend all your
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time talking about how climate change is ruining everything, and
then you say, well, we couldn't be prepared because a
climate change, Yeah, which is it? Uh?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Dozens of suspected looters have been arrested so far praying
on really expensive neighborhoods where people have been ordered to evacuate.
So the government tells you you have to leave, you leave,
And then does the government do a good job at
keeping scumbags from coming in and stealing all your stuff.
That's a really maddening situation. But I'm looking this picture
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of all the people that they have arrested.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
It.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You know you want you want to you want a
group of people that looks like America. To a certain extent,
this group looks like America, all kinds of different shades
and hues of human being that are scumbags will come
steal your stuff in a crisis.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Evidently there's diversity, equity, and inclusion among looters who should
all be beaten. The term I was looking for, Jack
is hydro climate whiplash. Hydro climate whiplash. I will start
throwing that around, please do.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And then Governor k Newsom yesterday signed an executive order
prohibiting greedy land developers from ripping off LA wildfire victims
with unsolicited, undervalued offers to buy their destroyed property, et cetera,
et cetera. Karen Bass weighed in on hotels are not
allowed to raise their rates a certain amount. Jonah Goldberg
of The Dispatch tweeted out those stories and said, I
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think this is profoundly immorally stupid. It's a waste of
government time and resources, an unnecessary impediment to economic recovery,
condescending nanism and demagogic policy.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Agreed every word, every long word.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, government starts getting involved in that sort of thing,
and interested distorts every level of everything.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Right coming up later in the hour, later in the
show in defense of gouging. And also the homeowners who
have said, yeah, I know we're supposed to have evacuated,
I'm staying here with my gun guarding my home, thank
you very much, and their interesting relationship with law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I want to Trump's inauguration, first term and the fancy
ball and everything like that. You gotta write a big
check to get in this time around, among the things
we've got to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I hope you can stay here. President elect Trump's.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Inauguration is just a few days away.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I saw that.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Will all be in attendance.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
The three richest men in the world all in one place. Man,
If you thought Bernie Sanders looks miserable at the last inauguration.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
When a Democrat is inaugurated, it's full of Hollywood stars.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
But that's just cool. It's just cool that Hollywood stars
are there. If you got three people who've accomplished something.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And happen to get really rich from it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That there's an implication that something evil and untoward is happening.
They never I've noticed none of these stories connect any dots,
like make any statements.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Just the three richest men will be sitting again, Oh
my god, and finish your sentence, and they're going to do
what Barnie is gonna have to.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Bernie is gonna have to clap his hand hwn mittens
over his ears. He's going to be so disgusted by
the proceedings. Speaking of the first go round for Trump,
the first inauguration, we've been discussing at times lately the
fact that there's a very different feel in this transition.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Noat in twenty sixteen, it.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Was he's an illegitimate president. He won't even get inaugurated,
he's a Russian stooge. Wait till that brave investigation gets going.
I heard James Kobe yesterday and it just it was
all phony and really, you know, queered the beginning of
the Trumpet mattrols something he had to fight the whole time. Anyway,
it's a very very different field this time around, where
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not only did he obviously win legitimately, but big and
and you know, the the festivities are in full swing.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
There is full blown fomo.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Slash status seeking going on in terms of the inauguration
to an unbelievable extent. CEOs are angling for invites to
parties which include the Maha Bowl Ball and another featuring
Snoop dog who is the U two of the twentieth century.
You can't swing a dead cat without seeing Snoop Dogg
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on the TV. What's the Maha Ball Make America Healthy
Again ball? But nature of it, I don't know. I
don't know why. But why is it so hot? Because
the RFK Junior is gonna be there? Yeah, And that's
kind of just hot among a certain crowd of Americans.
But eight years of go Trump's inauguration smashed fundraising efforts
drew in high dollar donors across corporate spectrum. This month's
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event will make the twenty seventeen affair look.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Like a bake sale. Really interesting corporate.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Interest in Donald Trump's inauguration has grown so intense that
allies of the president of elect have been soliciting ten
to fifteen million dollar donations. Those are individual donations to
spread across various Trump groups. According to people familiar with fundraising,
some high six figure donors have asked consultants to help
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them get in the door and been turned away. Wow
or wait listed. Listen if a ticket shakes loose, I'll
call you. Thanks for your eight hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I give you eight hundred thousand, and they can't get
in the door.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
The inaugurations raised more than two hundred million dollars so far,
could double what it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Raised eight years ago.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
And they name check various crypto companies and JP Morgan, Chase,
As McDonald's, del To Airlines, Lockheed Martin, Johnson, Johnson, all
giving a million dollars more. This is not unique to Trump,
of course, not every inauguration and every fundraising for presidential
library is legalized bribery. It's absolutely, unquestionably bribery.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Obviously it is. It's funny, no more, people don't talk
about that or call it that. Obviously it is. Why'd
you donate millions of dollars to the Presidential Library because
you just really like books for that particular president or documents.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Now no, I like.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Get nice diorama and they don't come cheap. You're hoping
to get a meeting. I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I was at the main ball for Trump in twenty sixteen,
twenty seventeen, but when he was elected inaugurated, and the
food there was spectacular.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I mean it was one you sneak in. How'd you
get in?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Somebody snuck me in. Yes, I did not have a ticket.
Somebody snuck me in it because I mean it was
the highest off high rollers in there. But it was
the best buffet I've ever had. I mean, the food
was really good, as you would exact, I don't doubt it.
I spent a lot of time lingering over the food.
Other people seemed like they were used to that sort
of chow, but I was really enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Coming up in defense of gouging, microplastics are ruining your
life and much more.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Fire strong and getty.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Two US officials say Israel and Hamas have agreed on
core elements of a ceasefire and the release of dozens
of hostages. According to people familiar with the negotiations. Both
sides are working to overcome minors details, but don't believe
any sticking points will derail progress. The details of a
potential deal are broken up into three main phases, starting
(17:38):
with the release of thirty three hostages, including at least
two Americans, over the next forty two days. Israeli forces
would withdraw from passive Gaza and allow much needed aid
in The Biden administration cut our Egypt, and the incoming
Trump administration all involved.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
This deal appears close, but a.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Reminder that Prime Minister Nashanyahu still has to get it,
his security cabinet and his governments to get the Green Knights.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I did read something the other day about the level
of coordination between the incoming Trump team and the outgoing
Biden team is really high on a couple of different
things that are going on right now, at a at
a level you wouldn't necessarily think based on the way
our politics are.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, yeah, because that should be what's happened.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Joe Biden is making noises trying to make this be
like the you know, the the end triumph or of
a long career in public service, him getting the hostages
out and cease fire deal I don't think it's going
to land that way. I think it's going to land
as Okay, they're scared of Trump. They weren't scared of him,
(18:42):
and now they're they're actually going to do it. I
think it's going to be seen as a Trump win
rather than a Biden win.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I don't disagree with a syllable of that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I also think, so why why do wars come to
an end when when one or both sides are exhausted and.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Hamas definitely exhausted.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And I think some of this is just guests, some
of it based on you know, the reporting that's out there.
I think Israel's hell bent on, probably with the help
of the United States, in a major attack on Iran
to take out that nuclear weapons facility where they're just
a couple of weeks away from a nuclear weapon if
they decide they want it. And Man I was talking
(19:21):
to or I wasn't talking to him.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I wish I was.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
We should try to see if we could get General
Petraeus on Hanson. He's got a book out, so he's
probably making the round anyway. I heard him on a
podcast the other day saying it has absolutely got to
be the policy of the United States as it has
been for a long time, that Iran does not get
a nuclear weapon, because that would just change all of
the formulas for the way everything is done in the
(19:44):
Middle least going forward.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
And there's virtually nobody on earth who disagrees with that,
no significant power, I mean, Russia is in bed with
Iran right now. But Putin' scotten no love for lunatic fundamentalists.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
She Muslims, and he's kind of busy, and Iran will.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
As we we talked with Ian Bremmer last week, Iran
has never been this week. They'll never be weaker. There's
never been a better time than to do it now.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So I think that's one of the reasons that Israel
is willing to because that's a heck of a deal
they're willing willing to make. Right now, you're gonna give
us back the remaining live people in a bunch of
dead bodies. Few people. We're going to kill you all.
But I think they're making this deal because they've got
bigger fish to fry.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Well see, at least, yeah, it might buy them a
little bit of time to you know, reposition and reassess
the thing that Lord knows, I can't tell bb net
and Yahoo anything about this topic because he knows already
is that Hamas is fundamentally a fundamentalist Islamic organization, and
it is written enshrined in the Quran and tradition that
(20:44):
to deceive your enemies is honorable. I mean if it
results in Allah's victory and in further conquest, and then
that to be utterly dishonest and deceptive is perfectly fine.
It's not like our cute Western ethics. So he and
I would go into this agreement saying, all right, these
guys are going to break every single facet of this
(21:05):
and cheat on every single facet of it the first
moment it becomes possible.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So it's a lovely little agreement. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Well.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I didn't fully understand this too, I read the Woodward book.
Then I think it came up with somebody we were
talking to the other day when Iran launched all those
drones at Israel and then Israel had to respond. They responded,
and most of the reporting was okay, it was a gesture.
They didn't hit anybody. It was just a they had
to do it to save face, blah blah. They took
out all of Iran's most sophisticated anti aircraft weaponry that
(21:39):
Russia had given them. That's what they did, which was
absolutely laying the groundwork for the coming attack. I think,
with the help of the United States to really take
out that nuclear facility, Iran is defenseless right now.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I was just going to say, at the very least,
it was sending the message, all right, we just made
you defenseless.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Do not mess with us. Do not mess with us again.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
How much how much of a heart ass is Trump
going to look like if he gets this ceasepire thing
between Hamas and Israel, and Israel has a successful attack
with our help on Irand to take out the facility,
that'll send a message around the world.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It absolutely will. Yeah, we'll see. You know.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
The great disconnect between a lot of folks on the
MAGA side of things and just people in general is
they don't understand to be quote unquote militaristic, to beef
up your military, to project strength, to project heart assishness,
to quote my colleague mister Armstrong here, that prevents war,
(22:46):
that stops people from dying in war. If you are
so formidable and so clearly willing to.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Use your power. You don't have to. That's the point
sophists get in fights.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Looking up at the TVCBS News going with a redefining
obesity story. Now we're moving away from the BMI scale,
I'll have to dig into that a lot. I need
to scale that says better things about me. It says
nice with things, uses kinder words than the BMI, which
calls us all heavy. Well, a lot of us are heavy, right,
(23:25):
but you know, we all know the BMI thing is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, if you are like at the
beginning of the obese section of the BMI scale, i'd
really because you don't.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Have to be very heavy at all.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
No, I really like to know how how seriously are
your health outcomes being you know, affected by your being
twenty pounds over your ideal weight. And I tell you what,
just for an example, I've been fat, I've been thin.
You know, when I was like in the greatest shape
of my adult life, when I lost all that weight.
I was down to one sixty eight, was seventy eight
(24:04):
something like that at five eleven, and I was just
in great shape and I was still overweight according to
the scale.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, I think I'm supposed to be one seventy five
and I would be a stick person. I mean, people
would ask me, I be whispering behind me, is he okay?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yes, it is cancer come back.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
If I was one seventy five, right right, So anyway,
rejigger it fine, get back to me when you're when
you're done. I'm trying not to get I'm trying to
maintain a reasonable weight.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, I'm doing pretty good on the no bake goods
or at least no uh no donut So that my
my nieces came up with this standard, which is pretty
good because I was trying to figure out.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Like do pancakes count as a big good? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
They If you could get it at a bake sale,
it's a bake good. If you can't, it's not was there.
So that's that's worked pretty well for me.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, I like it. It's very homespun.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Yeah, Like I had pancakes there today, you wouldn't get
those at a bake sale. I'm not gonna go crazy
with pancakes like I do donuts. I'm not gonna pick
up pancakes on the way home and eat them in
my car.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Probably. Yeah, he never know though, you know it's it's
kind of an artificial dividing line. But I get it.
It works. What do you think, Katie, I think I'm
slashing it too thin.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I think the man that pulled a fork out of
his suit pocket so he could eat a pie in
his car might.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Get a stack of pancakes and eat it in there
as well.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I have to keep an eye on myself if I start,
if I start eating pancakes in my car, I have
my fork right here.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Well, it's not he has a fork on him, Folks,
nobody carries a fork. I give you seen Swiss army
lot knives that have forty seven different implements.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
They don't eat well, sometimes they do. Include This is
a full.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Metal table fork that I keep in my jacket bucket
in case I find myself with a pie or something.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yes, Michael, Yes, I'm just in disbelief. That's what. You
just waved it around yourself, proud of it.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I know it's odd, isn't it? As fork will travel?
Where were we we were talking about something important?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I believe, Oh that's right. We're on obesity, right, Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The confirmation hearings that are going on today live If
anything exciting happens, I'll let you know about it. My
current position is, Pam Bondi is too hot to be
Attorney General. I just think it's I think it's off
putting somehow. Wow, I think you can serious mad men
around here. It's hard to take her seriously.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Also in defensive looting and an encouraging gender bending madness update.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Like that, Like that, things are going.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
The wind is definitely blowing the right direction on that topic,
no doubt about it. We've got a lot more on
the waist to hear.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Starbucks is rolling out a new policy that requires people
to buy something if they want to use the bathroom. Meanwhile,
at Duncan Donuts, you're free to go to the bathroom
while standing in line.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
The CEO of Duncan said, anybody can come in, but
you've got to punch the biggest guy in here to
establish yourself.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I have been in a number of Dunkin locations throughout
our beautiful nation and have not found it to be
excrement screwn, strewn prison like in any way.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Once again, Starbucks twisting themselves into knots trying to deal
with the street people problem without saying out loud, we're
changing our rules because of the street people problem. That's why, hey, city,
stop having drug addicts hang around everywhere coming. I wish
they just I wish all these businesses would just say
out loud while they're why they're changing their policies. Yeah,
(27:35):
I agree one percent.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
I think Starbucks is one of the few that would
be vulnerable to the online fever pitch in the crowd.
Most companies should just ignore those people. They're few in number,
they're pissed off about, so that they'll be pissed off
about something different tomorrow. Don't worry about it, but Starbucks
could actually get hurt by the young woke lunatics.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Got this text I wanted to read. My dad and
I have loved your show for many years. He unfortunately
passed away this weekend, but you always brought a smile
to his face right up to the end with your
intelligence and humor. Keep fighting the good fight, Andy from
the OC Orange County.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Well thanks, Andy, and we're sorry for your loss. Obviously.
That's that's very touching. Yeah wow ah, so are we ready? Michael?
It's a gender bending madness update, but a twist for
what much.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
More hope than outrage this time around. Check the neck.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
We don't need to go there. Michael's sleep at the switch.
Dealing with the technical problem. I apologize, audience.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
We're vesting that though a couple of these stories are
quite significant, indeed they're getting no attention because they are very,
very uncomfortable to the mainstream media. On Thursday, a federal
judge in Kentucky issued a nationwide block to the Biden
administration's Title nine rewrite, which made gender identity a protected
(29:18):
characteristic under the Education Amendment of the nineteen sixty four
Civil Rights Act, and that would have required schools and
colleges to give trans identifying biological men also known as men.
It's the only kind of man. There is, a biological man.
Don't bother with the term anyway. It would give trans
identifying men access to women's sports spaces and scholarship.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It would have been a mess. I mean, it would
have unleashed.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It would have been like that Grant's pass reeling ruling
what it did to homelessness.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
If this had gone the other direction on the trains thing, just.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It would have been devastating, Yeah, devastating and just bizarre
and just completely country victory to the idea of Title nine,
which was we've got to protect women's sports and make
sure women have equal opportunities. Well they don't if dudes
can just say, yeah, I'm a chick now and play
against them anyway, the court wrote in its ruling, quote,
(30:15):
when Title nine is viewed in its entirety, it is
abundantly clear that discrimination on the basis of sex means
discrimination on the basis of being male or female. And
in spite of radical gender shit, stop using gendered language
which would have been laughed out of any sane conversation
eight years ago, ten years ago, but is now being
(30:37):
taught in your children's school.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You don't get to choose whether you're a male or
a female.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
You can throw on a dress their sweetheart, but you're
still a dude as far as the law is concerned.
At least anyway, Well done to the judge in Kentucky.
We'll see where that goes. Also, here's a story that's
actually from the New York Times in some great commentary
from our friend Paolo. But a divided House on Tuesday
approved legislation that aims to bar transgender women and girls,
(31:09):
they're boys and men.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
We have words for that.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Men and boys from participating in school athletic programs designated
for female students. As republic this is great. This is
such a Republican's pounce style sentence. As Republicans sought to
ring political opportunity from a social issue that helped them
win the twenty twenty four elections. Wow, boy, I could
teach a college class on that sentence. Kidding all right,
(31:35):
First of all, as Republicans sought to ring political opportunity,
or Republicans sought to not have dudes raping girls and
women in prisons, or raping in a molesting girls in
locker rooms, or and this is plenty making women intensely
uncomfortable because men have been permitted to be in their
(31:56):
locker rooms watching them dress and shower, attempting to ring
political opportunity.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Well, then the rest of the sentence, yes.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, the rest of the sentence where they say and
it worked basically, So then in what way are you
ringing opportunity out of something that America agreed with?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Well, right, exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
They characterized it as a social issue that helped them
win the twenty twenty four elections.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
How do you win elections.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
In our system, New York Times, what do you have
to have a majority of Yeah, people who agree with you. Now, Interestingly,
as our friend Powloll points out, the bill, well, this
is still the New York Times approved. Improved, approved, almost
entirely along party lines on a vote of two eighteen
to two oh six, would prohibit federal funding from going
(32:43):
to K through twelve schools and include transgender students.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Dudes.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Again, we have a word for that already, it's fellas
on women's sports teams.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Use gendered language to address everyone.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
It faces a steep challenge in the Senate, where seven
Democrats would have to join Republicans to move it past
to Philbuster into a final vote. Well, i'll tell you
what you want to talk about, Republicans pouncing or ringing
political opportunity when you can't get more than I'd guess
a handful of Democrats to say, Hey, dudes, raping women
(33:19):
in prison ain't cool. We're going to ring a hell
of a lot more political opportunity from that, because it's
blanking insane.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
So most of those Democrats don't agree with this policy.
They're just scared of the the online Twitter wing of
the Democratic Party and how they'd come after them, which
is the way politics works. But when it's on the
Republican side, senators are only doing that because they're scared
of the maga world, it's somehow awful and evil and scary.
But when Democratic senators are voting in a certain way
(33:50):
because they're scared of you know, lefty nut job Twitter world.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
It's right, it's what well.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Interestingly, there was a big BBC survey in Britain sent
to hundreds and hundreds of athletes, female athletes, that asked
several questions about transgenderal athletes dudes competing in women's sports,
and an uncomfortable majority said they felt very uncomfortable about
(34:18):
transgender athletes, but quite a few said they were very
hesitant to say what they thought because of fears of abuse.
Are being considered discriminatory. That is the extent to which
a very small minority of lunatics have intimidated so many
of us, and my gosh, I feel for the women
(34:42):
who are have been intimidated into silence. I have much
more on the unbelievable record. It's sickening of there are
something like twenty five hundred dudes in women's prisons right
now because they claim to be a girl.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And the rape and the.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Pregnancies and sexually assault, the sexual assaults are rampant.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But we don't have time. That's the end of your
gender bending madness. Update. What were we going to do?
An hour three? You had something good. We're putting off.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Number one LA area residents who are defying the evacuation
band to guard their homes, sometimes at gunpoint, and also
in defense of gouging.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
All right, yeah, yeah, If you haven't heard this argument,
it will change your view on this topic.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
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