I've Got A Delicious Monkey On My Back

Hour 1 of A&G features...

• Hamas hostages return home & the price of coffee
• Katie Green's Headlines!
• The Middle East peace deal
• Mailbag! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and
Decade and he arms Draw for brom Studio, Sea than York.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I am so hungover for my Columbus Day party. Oh
my god, I'm drinking as so much Spanish wine.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, and brought in some Native American people to abuse.
Who is quite the party but anyway, a dimly lit
room deep with them the bowels of the Armstrong and
Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all, today we're back at work,
and we're under the tooth leg of our General Man,
Donald J. Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Ask kicker Comma peacemaker.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Ass kicker, Comma peacemaker. And those two are closely related
friends are honorary Assistant General Managers Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken,
who were out saying Donald Trump and his administration built
on the peace plans that we had developed. Okay, I'm hilarious, poise.
Everybody's totally buying that. Quite a day yesterday, huh. I

(01:31):
was almost regretting us not being on the air as
all the hostages were being returned with the twenty remaining
hostages that are alive, which I guess right, You know,
I understand why you didn't focus on the fact that
they're only twenty alive and a whole bunch of bodies,
And how did those alive people become bodies? I guess
that's the only way you can get this piece thing
to happen. But that kind of thing to overlook. I

(01:52):
understand the difficulty of the editorial decision if you have
a shortish newscast and you depend heavily on video to
keep people watching. But yeah, you and I were thinking
exactly the same thing. Maybe two of those dead twenty
eight died of natural causes or some disease that they
already had. The rest were starved, abused, executed, or just

(02:17):
denied medical care for easily curable conditions. They are murder victims, Yeah,
tortured to death. And that's a heck of a thing
to ignore, But you know, I guess that's part of
the process of moving on. Yeah the hell, it's not
like no a price has been paid by the Islamist monsters.

(02:40):
Now look at some of those A lot of the
videos before they were actually released, the living hostages where
they would say their loved ones. So I'm coming home.
It's just a matter of hours now. The two Hamask
guys standing next to them, right, it's just incredible, shoulder
to shoulder menacing them. Yeah, but the and the reception

(03:00):
that Trump got there in Israel yesterday. We got audio
from that coming up later. Man, that was something. Yeah,
it was absolutely amazing. And then the turn toward broader
peace in the Middle East starts to get a little
more complicated. But it's always been complicated, and so he's
moving forward, moving forward, you certainly have more participants who

(03:23):
used to only vowed to wipe each other off the
map working together in a way that's never happened, right,
and hurting those cats won't be easy, but the fact
that they are in a herd is astonishing, and it
does it's more than just a momentary gesture or an

(03:43):
interesting chapter. I really do think it was a pivot point.
This is a pivot point in the Middle East where
the reasonable folks are realizing that the extremist folks aren't
doing them any favors and never have. It's you know
that it makes it sound a little easier than it's
going to be. But I mean Hamas for instance, brutally

(04:06):
unpopular on the ground in Gaza at this point, terribly unpopular.
The Egyptians, you know, consented to have net Yahoo com,
although the word behind the scenes is a lot of
the Arabs are like dudes. I cannot be in a
picture with the bb net nyaw so anyway, a lot
to be worked out, but the fact that we're moving

(04:27):
in that direction is amazing. Uh yeah, yeah, it's it's
gonna be something to watch. I don't know if you
heard this quote. I heard it a couple of different places.
I'd never heard it before. I think it's credited to
George Bernard Shaw. Some men look at things the way
they are and except reality. Some men decide to ignore

(04:52):
reality and go full steam ahead anyway, and history is
driven by that second group. I thought that was really interesting.
I'd never heard that quote before because I leaned toward
that first group, and I tend to want people who
lean toward that first group in charge of everything, who
accept reality and work with it as opposed to Nah,

(05:14):
I don't believe in that's reality. It's gonna go barreling
this direction anyway. But the fact that history is driven
by those who are the second group. You know, a
lot of calamities and plans unfulfilled are driven by that
second group. Also obviously, right, there's a lot of what
is called reality that is in fact just convention. Middle

(05:37):
East is a great example of that. And we've talked
about this a number of times. That Trump looks at
the conventional wisdom and says, hey, I don't care. I
don't care. We've got a deal to make. Let's figure
out how to make the deal. Well, mister President, you
can't move the capital to Jerusalem, because he's like, yeah,
we're gotta That was just what was called reality, was

(05:59):
just convention. The post sixty seven borders after the Sixth
Day War leadies to I don't know what you're talking about,
and I don't care, right right, make the problem bigger.
Who's standing in the way? Cut her a, drop a
bomb on drop a bomb on them, and b invite
them to the next summit. So the shutdown continues. We're

(06:22):
now the fifth longest shit down of all time, something
like that. And I just saw a chart of the
longer shutdowns than we've had so far. You didn't remember
any of them except for one that happened in nineteen
seventy eight. And if you're old enough, that happened in

(06:43):
your lifetime. But even if you're younger, except for the
one that happened in nineteen seventy eight, they've all happened
in your lifetime and you don't remember them at all.
So it could end by and then we'll move on
with our lives. But maybe a lot end for who knows.
I don't know. We have a dysfunctional government. There's a
breaking news. I hope that didn't shock anybody. I hope
you're okay. And a grotesquely dishonest media too. If they

(07:04):
were reporting anywhere near honestly on this, it never would
have happened. So seamless political grand standing checks. It's awful.
Check in on that stupid story later. I just came across.
The Atlantic has a I'm thinking about this because I'm
drinking coffee right now. Oh my god, I love coffee.
I'm a drug addict. Most of us are drug addicts,

(07:25):
caffeine addicts and pathetic junkie. The Atlantic has a story
out coffee is in trouble, and for a variety of reasons, tariffs,
changing climate, business models, all kinds of different things, coffee
is in trouble it is forty percent more expensive than

(07:46):
it was a year ago, and it had taken a
giant leap the year before that. Oh, it is becoming
a real serious problem. Where coffee is going to come from,
and how you're going to keep it at a price
anyway you can afford it. We're all addicts, and if
we read sorry, no more trips. I gotta afford my
brown smack. Gotta be able to afford my hot bitter smack. Right,

(08:08):
got more vacations. I got a delicious monkey on my back.
As long as there's enough for me, I'm good. That's
attitude I got mine. How long does it keep? Maybe
if it's going up like that, I should just buy
a whole bunch of it, keep in my house, you know,
enough for the next rest of my life. I'm an

(08:28):
espresso guy and a curag guy, and those pods last
a long time. Yeah, they do. They're also expensive it.
I've noticed a lot of the time when I go
to you get wrung up at the grocery store and
they ring up the bill and it's like, what, how
did I spend that much money? It's the box of
coffee pods that I got. Yeah, they're much much cheaper,

(08:51):
can get me your coffee out though, Oh yeah, no
doubt so, And then I definitely want to I'm hot
to trot about this first story they had on sixty
Minutes from Sunday Night about China. Sixty minutes has been
doing a good job for a couple of years on
alerting us to China's threats with a variety of stories,
but the one they had on Sunday night was I
found bone chilling. I don't know why this isn't like

(09:15):
the main topic of conversation, the way China is. We've
been trying to convinu you of that, the way China
has hacked into so many of our systems across the country,
and wondering why did they do it? What is their plan?
And they have a kill switch on everything we depend on.
Hanson put together AI saying Joe Getty Cold Warrior or

(09:38):
just I can do it for you. Yes, yes, my god,
we are so vulnerable and we're asleep. We're sleeping like
fat little babies with no idea the dangers lurking outside
the nursery door China's ass home. We'll play some summary,
we'll play some clips later. If you didn't see if
they had. This four star general on had been running

(09:59):
uh security of the NSA all kinds of different things
for many, many years, and he was really laying out
a frightening story of how they're into all our computer systems,
cell phone towers, water plants, and tiny little towns all
across America. And one thing that they did is they
didn't get in with malware which would eventually be detected.
They just hacked in and got the passwords. And so

(10:21):
if they ever need to, they can get in there
and make all the water in your town poison. Really
by messing with the chemicals. They could do that like
today if they wanted to, or probably more likely, according
to this security expert, after they decided to move on
Taiwan and we start doing or saying threatening things, all
of a sudden, there's like five towns spread across America

(10:42):
where the water turned to poison. That would freak people out.
Oh yeah, oh my god, I didn't you imagine the
reaction to that. And China. See, and we can do
that with everything. We can do that with cell phone towers,
we can do it with your water, we can turn
off your hospitals, we can do it all electric grid. Please,
that'll be the first thing to go. Yeah, that's quite story.
So we'll talk about that. Oh my god, that is

(11:03):
just absolutely amazing. Yeah, don't you add that to their
psychological warfare programs, including TikTok. I'm telling you we are
at the hottest cold war that's ever existed. I'm Jack Armstrong,
he's Joe Getty suffering from our Columbus Day hangovers the
Tuesday October fourteenth year, twenty twenty five. We Armstrong in

(11:24):
getting we approved of this program. Okay, let's begin officially then,
according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at mark.
So is that Israel or Godzia, because it could have
been either one. I saw people chanting that in both places.

(11:45):
I believe that was what would used to be called
hostage square now celebration square. I think they're calling it
in Israel. Yeah, yeah, amazing, Yeah, it actually is. And uh,
there will be movies made and dozens of books written

(12:06):
over coming decades about how all that came together and
and there's actually some decent coverage already how what pressure
was brought to bear exactly that that convinced Hamas to
give up their only leverage really interesting.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
I want to hear that. We got a lot on
the way. Get Katie's headlines coming up. Stay right here,
Joe Getty Cold Warrior. That's good, that's really good.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
There's also while we were off for a couple of days,
Trump announced a one hundred tariff on China, which is
a really big deal and has got the markets all.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Why out how long it's gonna work? Wow? And uh,
we can talk more about that later. China holding back
on our precious metals to our rare earth metals that
we need so badly. So trade war, trade war? All right,
let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
with Katie Green. Katie. Firstly, what do you call a

(13:02):
snowman who can play the piano? Hmmm, I don't know.
Melton John go On who asked for that? Very good.
I think that should be a new feature before headline
it is going to be. I've got a bunch of
those every day. Yes tells a kids joke, Yes, exactly,
to the headlines for the adults for am NBC.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Celebrating a hard one ceasefire, Trump pushes for quote lasting.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Harmony in the Middle East. Yeah, your lips to got
all those ears. Oh oh oh oh interesting comments, multi
layered comment there, Yes, I hope, but I hope you
picked up on it more. It was more, It was more.
It was more complicated than my Melton John joke from ABC.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Russian aerial attack hits a Ukrainian hospital just days before
Zelenski set to meet with Trump.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Well, if you're going to terrorize the population, go after
those hospitals and school's flatim.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Air And this one coming from CNN, Multiple airports refuse
to play Christie Nome video that blames the.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Democrats for the government shut down. Yeah, airports refuse to
play a video. Yeah, I don't know about political videos
in the airport while I'm walking to my gate anyway.
What is that? Oh? Are they part of CNN's programming.
It's a Pate spot or what? Katie.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
No, it was a video that the administration put out
talking about how, you know, the TSA and the federal workers.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
They want to do the best job that they can.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
And it's Christi Nome saying it, and then it goes
into you know, but the Democrats have shut the government down.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, if there was a mechanism for that sort of
thing already, Okay, but honestly, I don't need the government
messaging me in the airport.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
From the New York Times, US starts charging Chinese ships
to dock.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
At its ports.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
From USA Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signs law banning block
pistols in the state of California.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
The Governor of California signed a bunch of laws over
the last several days that we should talk about. I'm
guessing most of them are as unconstitutional as that one.
That is not the point. The point is signaling that
you're the right kind of person to be the nominee
for president. That was my point. Uh huh. He knows
they won't get take effect. Oh boy, that's just like

(15:34):
that famous rock star guy. Okay, this will make you sweat.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
From PC World, New malware waits until you watch porn,
then secretly films you via your webcam.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Please don't, Oh boy, he got old. Boys. Is Michael
uh from the New York Post, not Guda News.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Your cheese is teeming with microplastics.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh no, Guda is a kind of cheese and it
sounds like the word good, so yes kind of Michael
is kind of a play on word. Really clean that
one up for us Jack, thank you.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Finally from the Babylon b Hitler brings peace to Israel.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, now, Hitler brings dozens of hostage Jews home exactly
and saves thousands of Jewish lives. You know, I heard
a lot of talk about the Nobel Peace Prize and
whether or not Trump will or should win it next
time around. It was just announced last week, so I'm
guessing it's roughly a year to will announce the next one.

(16:52):
This will seem like ancient history a year from now.
Plus they'll be all the twists and turns from you know,
how a peace deal comes together doesn't come together over
the next year. I just I just think it'll be
such a distant memory, right, And honestly, I would like
to devalue that prize as a thing anyway. Yeah, it's
been ridiculous for a very long time. Yeah, but maybe

(17:16):
we're nine months into Trump's term. There are so many
things yet to go. We got a lot of stuff
to talk about today. To catch you up on the
news from the weekend. I hope you can see here
Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 5 (17:29):
It's a really significant first step, and I really commend
President Trump and his administration as well. As Arab leaders
in the region.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Lots of people, including Hillary Clinton there who don't normally
have anything nice to say about Trump, saying nice things
about Trump because of the way things have unfolded in
the Middle East over the last several days. Yeah. Yeah,
Hillary is a witch and a partisan, but she's a
real in a way that a lot of people in
politics aren't. So yeah, I appreciate that. Well, her and

(18:05):
her husband had been bumping up against Tomas for many decades,
so they realize, they realized what time it is. Well,
and Billy Jeff was, I mean, he was about ready
to get like the next ten years worth of Nobel
Peace Prizes when he got stiffed at the last minute
by Yasser Arafat, who was afraid of radical Islamist So yeah, yeah,

(18:26):
they're they're realists about you know, the d G hotties,
no doubt. Before we get into the actual news, got
to at least tip our cap to the fact that
both Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken are on social media
claiming that the Gaza breakthrough was just building on their

(18:47):
approach and they'd gotten practically all the way to the
finish line. And in a lengthy post on X Blincoln
said it was it's good that President Trump adopted and
built on the plan the Biden administration developed after months
of discussion with Arab partners, Israel and the Palestinian authority.
A right. That's my favorite part of ruly hilarious. That's

(19:10):
my favorite part of politics is everybody trying to take
credit when something goes well, or everybody trying to distance
themselves when something goes poorly. That's my favorite thing of
the whole political thing. Most of my favorite thinkers who
don't like Trump, including Ian Bremmer, say Biden Harris were
never going to get there with their approach, right right.

(19:33):
The truth is, of course that Trump did the opposite
of what Blinkeln and Biden did, which was constantly restrain Israel,
and every time they did it gave Hamas more incentive
to hang on. And anytime Bbe would have thought of
doing something as bold as as throwing a missile into
Cutter or asking Biden to bomb the four Do nuclear plant,

(19:55):
can you picture that? Yeah? I was watching ABC News
coverage of it, and they're like, one phrase explanation for
how this came together was Trump pressuring bb Net and Yahoo. Oh, no, okay,
So that's that's why the whole thing went down. It
wasn't all these countries, uh, making it clear that Hamasa's

(20:20):
days were over, and all the pressure that came from that,
and and the piece agreement is basically a surrender by Amas.
So I don't know. Yeah, anybody who reports that or
says that, never watch them or listen to them or
read them again. I mean, that's not only is that
like wish casting based on nothing, but it's it's it's

(20:40):
a weird anti semitism too. How can you possibly believe
that when it was clear all the Arab states were
pressure to and or cajoled into condemning Hamas and yanking
away their their their support anyway, to that point, some
great coverage in the Wall Street Journal, a coordinated squeeze
forced Hamas to accept a deal it didn't want Egypt. Okay.

(21:05):
So the plan which was put together by Trump and
the partners in this whole process, that was then presented
to Hamas looked nothing like what Hamas's leader Khalil Aihaya
expected to see, according to officials familiar with the discussions. Haya,

(21:26):
who less than a month earlier, had been a target
of that that bombing, and Cutter told his visitors, the diplomats,
that the group would keep its Israeli hostages until it
had enforceable guarantees the war would end. Period. Two days later,
Hamas came back to Arab mediators and said, yeah, we'll
go along with the deal. The deal had not changed

(21:48):
the pressure on Hamas had Egypt, and Cutter told Haya
the deal was his last chance to end the war.
According to the officials, they presented Hamas to understand, or
they pressed Hamas rather to understand that holding the hostages
was becoming a strategic liability, giving Israel a source of
legitimacy to keep fighting. The next day they were joined
by Turkey, who warned him that if Hamas didn't approve

(22:11):
the plan, it would be stripped of all political and
diplomatic cover. Cutter and Turkey would kick their asses out,
and Egypt would stop pressing for Hamas to have a
say in Gaza's post war governance. The official said, wow. Meanwhile,
the Alphabet News Wars report that he pressured Netnian. Yeah,
so as, ABC News said it all came together because
Trump was willing to put pressure on Benjamin and yet Okay,

(22:35):
that is unbelievable, says to Hani Mustafa of visiting fellow
with the European Council on Foreign Relations. AMAS themselves have
been under a lot of pressure from regional mediators. AMAS
also knows they're probably not going to politically survive this
thing if it continues down this route, especially given that
their popularity is declining. Yeah, they were desperate and had

(22:57):
no friends left. Jared Kushner actually met with hamas leaders,
which is one of those things that you supposedly can't
or aren't supposed to do, but he did, and that
helped bring this all together. There's a guy that is
somewhat inscrutable, and I suppose historians will have to try

(23:17):
to figure out his role and what he is up to.
He's been at the center of all this Middle East stuff.
He put together the Abraham Accords. But he just he
keeps his head down. He doesn't go on the Sunday shows,
doesn't write long pieces for newspapers. Yeah, I remember the
whole He's a Nepo baby. He's just the Trump's son

(23:38):
in law. So he's been elevated. He has no experience,
blah blah blah. He's got some sort of talent for sure,
and it's probably at least slightly trumpion in that the no,
I don't care about the old lines after the nineteen
seventy three bombing, in the the lingering tensions between now
we're gonna get to a deal sit down. So Hamas

(24:01):
spent several days there rounding up Palestinians there in gods
that that they think had betrayed them and executing them,
which is quite a thing. Yeah. I don't know how
they think that helped them in anyway, turning the population
even more against them. I don't know. Well, I think well,
because they had they had courts. Just reading Joonah Goldberg writing,

(24:25):
the Hamas put together these courts and had trials they claim,
and then executed these people. Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch, writing,
It's amazing that Hamas managed to pull off this despite
and during months of famine. It makes it all the
more impressive. Standing up a legal system in rubble while
ravenously hungry must be really hard. Yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Well,

(24:48):
to get back to your question about the show, trials
and executions and all that just reminds us I think
that they're dead enders in hardcore Islamic extremists. Man, the
list of we can go through a little bit later.
Some of the people that Israel has to let go,
I mean, just some horrible human beings. Oh yeah, it's

(25:09):
part of a bunch of life sentence guys as part
of the exchange. So you give us somebody, some college
girl you snatched at a outdoor concert, raped and tortured,
will give you back five people that blew up Israeli

(25:29):
buses and a bunch of innocents. Okay, that's a fair swap.
But that's that's the way they do it in Israel.
It's part of their Jewish law. Well, they cherish life
and believe it's a sacred thing to have the body
back and bury it. The Islamic extremists embrace death. They
want it, they love martyrdom. So yeah, that's the Israelis

(25:52):
have so much less leverage in that sort of negotiation.
It's just it's interesting. Yeah, I'd say, you hope some
of the bad guys don't become household names in six
months or six years like old Sinwar did. He was
one of the hostages released last time around, and he
orchestrated the whole October seventh, thing right right, well, to

(26:14):
neutralize that, and a lot of them you'll never neutralize.
They will be and do exactly what you're suggesting. But
the tweeners, the wobblers, the guys who might go that
route or might not. If this coalition of no, we're
done with that. Let's do deals, make peace and bring
you know, And it's funny we haven't gotten to this

(26:37):
part of the discussion until now. Bring happiness and prosperity
and education and open shops and people walking down the
streets and cheerly greeting their neighbors in the Middle East.
There's no reason that shouldn't be happening except for a
while Islamic extremists and handful of other factors. Alec Baldwin

(27:02):
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(28:34):
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(28:55):
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We've got mail bag on the way. Got to talk
about that that whole China one hundred percent tariff thing
that Trump announced could be a major deal, especially headed
into Christmas time if he sticks with it. Some of

(29:19):
the things he said in his truth social post when
he announced this, oh again and then you got to
get to the Supreme Court ruling. Does one guy get
to decide there's a one hundred percent tariff on the
second biggest economy in the world interacting with the first
biggest comedy economy in the world, doesn't it The one
guy is esion ting? The answer is yes, if it's

(29:40):
Donald Trump, it's different. Yeah. I don't know. It doesn't
seem like one guy to be able to do that.
But anyway, we've got a lot more on the way.
I hope you can stay here. I don't be too Graham,
especially when we're dealing with Alec Baldwin having wrecked his
range Rover. But uh, I just came across the video
of Hamas execute and eight dudes this morning who had
obviously been beaten. What do they think they're going to

(30:02):
get up by the way to a cheering crowd. Wow,
that's not helping. You're not helping yourself, I don't think.
But I don't know what they're playing. Yeah, well more
to say on that topic. Really interesting. Here is your
freedom loving quote of the day, sent along by Doctor
Joe and Reno. Well done, doctor Joe.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
It's from Michael oakshot from his essay rationalism in politics,
which I was not familiar with.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
But I'm going to pursue this. One's a little wordy,
so hang in there. I'll do my best. The superiority
or victory of an ideology over a tradition of thought
lies in its appearance of being self contained. It can
best be taught to those minds who are empty. And
if it is to be taught to one who already

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believes something, the first step of the teacher must be
to administer a purge, to make certain that all prejudices
and preconceptions are removed, to lay his foundation upon the
unshakable rock of absolute ignorance. Oh wow. In other or
a shorter version of that would be that's why they
always go for the children and the young people, Because

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if you're going to convince someone your ideology is better
than all that's gone before it and all that's proven
to be true, it's best taught to those whose minds
are empty. Otherwise it's going to butt up against what's true.
That's a wordy, but it's a good point. Thank you,
doctor Joe. Mailbag right to us, would you please. The

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email address is Mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
First your mem of the day, sent along by Joel.
It's a picture of Christopher Columbus and it says, here's
the Christopher Columbus, the only illegal immigrant the left ever hated. Uh,
Columbus Day. I don't get it. I don't get why

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it's still a thing. Not because I think he was
some sort of evil settler colonials or something like that.
I just don't understand why it's holiday mark. Right, Welcome back, slackers,
Columbus Day to whatever. We're all out getting it done Monday. Well,
you were off being soft, taken a day you gotta
stay frosty, show up. You start riding the sled of

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superfluous holiday observance. You might as well just punch your card.
I wish I could have taken the day off. I
thought I would join the other smart asses. How do
you spell that? Mark? Beautiful? Wow? Grady email, I think
that is the first time we ever took Columbus Day off.
And what's next? Arbor Day? National Hamburger Day? A right,
Wait a minute, I can't say it any better than him.

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You start riding the sled of superfluous holiday observance, you
might as well just punch your card. Oh, my god,
this is one of my favorite emails of all time. Mark,
That's funny. Honestly, we've never taken Columbus Day off because
it's a stupid holiday. But Michael Michelangelo was off celebrating
his anniversary and various folks kids were off school, and

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we thought, dah, what the heck? Michael, because he is
of Italian descent, got married on Columbus Day. That's right, yeah, yeah,
a beautiful tribute to the great man Michael. Moving along,
Brian said, right right, Well, Michael is a big fan
of his wife and genocide. Everybody knows that. Let's see,
Brian with a nice note, social media use is dropping.

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For the first time, I viewed this as good news,
which means you probably won't mention it on the air
since you two covet the title of the most depressing
radio show ever. Well, well, Brian, my friend, you think
you're going to wander in here and like push us around.
You're a child, Brian, a child. You just got in

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the boxing ring with Mike Tyson. Here's why social media
use is down. Posting is down because the poor brainwashed
kids find it too much. It takes too much effort,
so they just lie there slack jawed and glassy eyed,
and scroll and scroll and scroll. That's why social media

(34:09):
uses down. So posting is down, but like reading it
and getting your news from it is not down. Yeah, okay,
that's interesting. Yeah again, you bring your joy in here, Brian. No,
it's gonna get its ass kicked. Joe Getty. Yeah yeah.
Cold war, Yeah, we has nothing to do with the
Cold War. We do not allow good news around here.

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Joe Getty, kill joy. Let's see interesting thought here from Paolo. Guys,
let's not get carried away with enthusiasm over the Middle
East situation. He said the remaining hostages were of little
value to Hamas. They were not preventing Israel from doing
anything they thought they needed to do militarily. Hamas has

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seated nothing of real value to themselves. They need to
disarm and relinquish any governing part. I think the only
thing you're missing, Paolo, is that the eternal, unshakable support
that the various Islamist extremists were getting from the air
of world is going away. It's practically Iran and nobody

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and Trump has just made some big overtures to Urran.
But you're right, Hamas are are dead enders and lunatics,
then perhaps our most rigorous, learned and willing to devote
a crapload of time. Correspondent JT and beautiful Livermore, California says,

(35:37):
just planning the seed. Trump is on track to be
the third greatest POTUS of all time. Obviously, it's too early,
given that Trump is only four months and nine four years,
nine months into his full eight years. Additionally, a lot
depends on how you define great or greatest. But that said,
here's a thumbnail list of Trump's monumental achievements. Kennedyate Trump

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was the first significant politicians to sound the alarm on
the problems with China. By contrast, Biden didn't even see
China as a competitor to the US. Trump built a
roaring economy only derailed by COVID. I'm summarizing some of these.
Trump excelled in foreign policy during his first term, taming
North Korea, briefly, orderly, draw down in Afghanistan, decimated isis.

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There's a long, long list. And then the stuff of
the second term drove Rosie O'Donnell out of the country. Oh,
perhaps his greatest achievement, and he appeared to be politically
dead in January twenty twenty in stage the greatest comeback
perhaps in the history of politics, anywhere, anytime. Well, that's
not a perhaps, that's a for certain. Oh, we got
a lot of other stuff on the way too. If
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