December 16, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Susie Wiles interview
- The Scouts of America & donations!
- The shooting at Bondi Beach & fundamentalist Islam
- Diabetes & shrekking
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I have to say, the drugs coming in by sea
are down ninety four percent, and we're trying to figure
out who the other six percent are.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But they're down ninety four percent. We're going to start
hitting them on land, which is a lot easier to do. Frankly, WHOA.
Once again he's saying we're going to hit him on land.
So they released three more videos overnight, three more boats
that we blew out on the water dependent on and
so that's quite a few boats over the period of time,
and Trump once again mentioning we're going to start hit
them on land. So there you go on that story.
(00:55):
This is kind of breaking twenty twenty eight presidential news,
which I hate coming out of my mouth because we
spend way too much time talking about the president of
the United States. But Marco Rubio has ruled out running
if jd. Vance decides to run, which is pretty big
news because most people that I follow seem to think
that was going to be the big battle between Rubio
and Vance, and Rubio said if he runs, I'm not running.
(01:18):
HM might be a glide path for JD. Vance to
the nomination could be Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So also a big political news New York Times is
out with a blockbuster story compiling a bunch of things
Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, has said in a
long series of interviews over the first year of mister
Trump's second term with the author Chris Whipple, who's written
a highly respected book about I'm told about presidential chiefs
(01:48):
of staff.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And then she tweets like we mentioned just last hour.
Then she has tweeted, they took this stuff out of
context and mischaracterized me. But I don't know. I don't
know what that means.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And there are all sorts of quotes that are getting attention.
Jade Vance has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade
and changed from Trump critic at to ally for sort
of political reasons because he was running for Senate.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So how, I'm like, I don't know how that could
be taken out of context. I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
She might not be talking about that, because there are
a dozen a dozen quotes at least that are getting attention.
Elon Musk is an avowed ketamine user and an odd,
odd duck whose actions were not always rational or left
her a gas. That's a several quotes in that sentence.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That one doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Let's see, I want my inventor.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Disruptors to be kind of crazy. That's their job, right.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Attorney General Pambondi completely whiffed in handling the Epstein files,
which she did shared Trump not to parton the most
violent rioters. I'm just going to run through the list, but.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Of all of me you mentioned a couple hours ago,
and now I can't imagine any of them being in
any different context that would make them any less quite amazing.
I mean for her to come out and say I
didn't think Trump should appall pardoned the most violent of
the January sixth people, Let's why did she do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, last hour we were talking about how she says
Trump has an alcoholics personality.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We dealt with that a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
She grew up with an alcoholic dad, the famous Pat
Summer all, the great sports caster.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm going to get to the new part in just
a second.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Let's see Miss Wiles confided in mister Whipple in March
that she told mister Trump that his presidency was not
supposed to be a retribution tour and to quit focusing
on that. We have a loose agreement that the score
settling will end before the first ninety days are over,
she said. Then, when it did not happen by August,
she told mister Whipple that quote, I don't think he's
on a retribution tour, but said that he was aiming
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at people who did bad things and coming after him.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
In some cases may look like retribution, and there may
be an element of that from time to time.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Who would blame him?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Not me?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Again, that's a I think that is enough. But here's
let's say.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Reach for comment Monday Evening by The New York Times,
mis Wils played down mister Trump's personal motivations in the
actions against his enemies. Let's see and then let's see,
where's the the BONDI stuff's pretty critical. No evidence that
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Clinton went to Epstein Island. Oh all right, here's where
it starts to get really interesting. She added that it
was Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's idea to go interview
Gilaine Maxwell in prison, and that the president did not
know that she would be transferred to a minimum security
prison camp. Quote, the president was ticked. The President was
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mighty unhappy. I don't know why they moved her. Neither
does the president.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
WHOA, that is news. But wait a minute. The president
of the United States can't pick.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Up the phone and call the federal prison system and say, hey, dudes,
what happened here?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, we'll call you back. Click. Come on. Why'd she
get moved? Then? Did somebody move her thinking she had
something on Trump and they're trying to protect him. I
don't know, and she claims she doesn't know, nieda does
the president. That's the biggest mystery in the whole Epstein thing.
To me, seems pretty clear to me what happened, but
(05:29):
nobody's admitted me. Were those pictures that came out last
week and a nothing burger that the media once again
traded like news.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah what oh? That was horrible. That was so nakedly
just clickbait. But it's the business there, and they're not
in the news business. They're in the clickbait business, remember that?
And so so. Wiles described frustration with mister Muski's not
odd duck as I think geniuses are you know it's
not helpful, but he is his own person. And they
(06:00):
were talking about when Elon shared a post sing the
stalin MAO and Hitler didn't murder millions their public sector workers.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Did, good Lord.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Miss Wilds said quote, I think that's what he's microdosing.
Asked what she meant, she said, he's an avowed ketamine user. Now,
mister Musk's acknowledged trying kedemene a few years ago, but
Dunn i'd reports of more recent use now. In the
interview at The Times on Monday, Mis Wilds took issue
with the quote attributed to her about the drug use.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous, she said. I wouldn't have said it,
and I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But mister Whipple, contacted by The Times, played them the
tape in which she can be heard saying it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh okay, some of this stuff she did say, and
now that it's out in the newspaper, she's wishing she hadn't.
I don't know how that works. I don't know how
people end up with, especially somebody like her. You're not
like me, like just a regular person that doesn't understand
how the world works. I mean you're weird in the
shark tank and happened for years. You know what you
(07:04):
can and can't say, and how it's going to be
used in a book or an article. Here's a question
for you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Was that the week when Trump was openly feuding with
Elon she thought she could go ahead and say it.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I don't know, so, I don't know much about the
whole ketamine thing. I know it killed Chandler, But did
people do it recreationally and fine? And is it a
big deal? I mean, is it like being a matthewser
or I don't think it's like that exactly. But that's
my take has been a number of people do it
in a healthy way. It's good for you.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
There are a handful of drugs ketamine, psilocybin, which is
the active ingredient, mushrooms, and a couple of the things
that people microdose. They say it makes them more relaxed
and happy, but they're not high. They're just like barely
barely barely well, they're less angsty. And evidently somebody said
he was microdosing. But anyway, then this is to me
(07:57):
just interesting, she offered. Uh. She was initially aghast about
the cuts to us aid because I think that overall
they do very good work. She offered no objection to
mister Trump's saber rattling against Venezuela and bombing of boats
carrying alleged drug traffickers. Quote he wants to keep on
blowing up boats until Maduro cries uncle. And people way
(08:20):
smarter and may say that he will, or may way
smarter than me on that say he will.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That's what I assumed was going on.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, yeah, She expressed misgivings about how the roundup of
immigrants has been carried out. At times, I will conceide
that we've got to look harder at our process for deportation.
But if there's a question, I think our process has
to lean toward a double check.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, So what stands out as a big deal here?
Like I'm looking at our friend Tim Sanderfer, who we love,
tweeted out, even in an atmosphere of NonStop jaw dropping insanity,
this is something and links to this article. What is
standing out to people as like real jaw dropping holy crap?
(09:05):
Not wow, that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I mean, it's it's a remarkable insider look at a
White House before it leaves office, which is something. But
I think a lot of this could fall under the
umbrella of there are disagreements within the administration, then they
come to a decision and proceed. And I mean, we
want that right, We want people saying, well, that might
(09:28):
be a bad idea, cause.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Is there anybody that didn't think Elon was odd, or
that Pam Bondi whiffed on Epstein, or that I don't
know several of the.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Other ones you mentioned, here's a story for you. Well, no,
you're absolutely right. Your rhetorical question is absolutely right. Let's see.
As for the potential successors to this point, mister Vance
and minister Ruvio. She distinguished how each of them came
around to supporting mister Trump after initially opposing him. Quote,
Marco is not the sort of person that would violate
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his principles. He just won't, and so he had to
get there. As for mister Vance, quote, his conversion came
when he was running for the Senate, and I think
his conversion was a little more sort of political.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, that's what I thought happened. I mean, maybe maybe
her saying that out loud is big news in the
high school gossip corridors of Washington.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
D C.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But I don't know. I thought that was pretty obvious.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
In the final note on this, mister Rubio, and it's funny,
mister Rubio told mister Whipple, the author, that he has
said publicly that quote.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
If JD.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Vance runs for president, He's going to be our nominee
and I'll be one of the first people to support him.
Still listen to this from the New York Times. Still,
the underlying tension came through when mister Vance posed for
the magazine's photographer quote, I'll give you one hundred dollars
for every person you look. You may look really s
compared to me, Vance joked, and a thousand If it's
(10:51):
Marco that showed the underlying tension that Vance said, Hey,
make everybody look crappier than me, and I'll give you
a hundred dollars per thousand bucks. If it's Marko, hah,
it shows underlying tension and not a former marine who's
got a really good sense in humor.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's underlying tension. Sounds like a joke. Okay, I still,
yet my jaw is not dropped to my jaws in
its normal spot. Perhaps you have lockjawn. Have you been
bitten by a hyena lately, or any jaws in its
normal spot. I did step on a rusty nail the
other day, my jaws, and it's a normal place. It
has not dropped yet from any of those revelations. Well,
that's I confused hydrophobia with the rabies with tetanus. My
(11:34):
my apologies. I'm not a physician.
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Speaker 2 (12:36):
Enjoy the deliciousness. To me, what should be the biggest
story this week is what happened in Australia, just because
it's in fitting with the ongoing conversation of what do
we do about radical Islam around the world that seems
to be reasserting itself and making its way into all
kinds of countries wanting to take over. Talk more about
that a little bit later, among other things.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Atlanta resident Tanya Shepherd says it happened to her in
the middle of the day last month, a thief stealing
our packages on a busy street. Shepherd's packages were among
the roughly two hundred and fifty thousand that are stolen
nationwide every day. A study from home safety research company
safe Wise estimated the total value of the items lost
in the past year alone at nearly fifteen billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That's something two hundred and fifty thousand packages stolen from
porches daily a quarter of a million a day. To me,
it's like horse thievery hangings. You got to make the
punishment so awful that people don't want to do it
(13:48):
because it's so easy to do. Yeah, wow, that's something despicable.
I'm I'm guessing that a lot of the boy Scouts
I know are not going to steal stuff off of
people's portes. That's my transition into raising money for Scouting
this week and the idea that hey, it costs a
couple hundred bucks, depending on your situation, to have your
kid get into Scouts, into the Scouts, and so we're
(14:10):
going to try to raise enough money that a whole
bunch of kids who want to join the Scouts can.
You don't have to come up with the money. Don't
want the family not having the money being the difference
between joining Scouts or not. And that's why we're raising
money this week, hoping to raise one hundred thousand dollars.
We'll hit you with a total here in a little bit,
but so donations so far one hundred bucks from Elvis
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Presley Christmas albums. These are people with funny names for
their their Jack's pocket fork in for fifty dollars. Thank
you very much. Oh, thank you, fork. Yeah, keep wishing
that pig good luck. Donated fifty bucks. Now, Katie, you
do not know that story, Hey don't. So we're at
a restaurant and we come out of the restaurant and
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outside on the street, they're barbecuing a pig on a spit.
And if you've ever seen that, it just looks like
a pig, you know, it looks like. I have a
rough time looking at that. But yeah, so did my
three and a half year old four year old son
Sam at the time, because he was at that age
where you know, animals are what you see in cartoons
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and movies and they're they're practically like people and all
that sort of stuff. Anyway, And and I wouldn't have
wanted him to look at that, I mean, if I'd
have known it was there. But we come out of
the restaurant and right there in front of us is
this pig on a spit being turned with an apple
in its mouth, eyes open. I mean, it just looks
like a living pig. I mean, they just started and
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we start walking and Sam gets tears in his eyes,
and I can tell he's all chucked him. I said,
what's up, buddy? He said, I want to go wish
that pig good luck. Oh oh oh, oh my god.
So that's what that is. Keep wishing that pig good luck.
Donated fifty dollars. Jeez, I know that that's traumatized. Yeah
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that young Yes, yes, oh he was, he was. He
was busted up over it. I want to go wish
that pig good luck. I said, it's ty it's death
as a hammer. There you go. That's good parenting right there. Uh,
we got fifty bucks from stupid should hurt appreciate that,
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gladys roll the drums on our way. I hope to
one hundred thousand dollars. We're currently at forty and thirty
seven dollars. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
That's going to help out a lot of young American
boys find their path in life. Love it, love it,
love it, Yeah, and learn leadership skills. I've seen this
in action.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I mean, it's just I could not be more impressed
with how some of these kids are leaders as like fourteen, fifteen,
sixteen year olds standing there in a group and saying,
all right, who's got food? That's you, Jimmy, all right,
what do you got tell me? And then there's a problem,
how you gonna how are you gonna fix that? You
got that taken care of? All right? And then go on,
who's got tense? And just think they're for fifteen years old?
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I don't see that. I'd like, I keep saying, I
see twenty eight year olds come into work that aren't
there are like twelve year olds in the modern society.
I would we need more grown ups, and I'm seeing
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Speaker 1 (17:25):
You're talking in the abstract about things other people have
told you. Not the radio rants.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Certain, No, No, I've not seen that at the radio
station at allt through the years, repeated outrageous thought. Oh boy,
uh Rich Lowry with a pretty good piece about this
whole Islam immigration problem that we got around the country
and this should be a pretty good yet another wake
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up call. What happened in Australia Australia over the weekend. No, NPR,
guns aren't the issue. Gun laws are the issue. Fundamentalist
Muslims move into countries and want to guild Jews or
take over the government. That's the issue. Good Lord. Anyway,
we'll talk about that and other things on the way.
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Speaker 4 (18:20):
The two shooters our fifty year old father, Sajid Akram
and his twenty four year old son Navid. Sources say
they pledged allegiance to ISIS and shouted Aluakba while opening fire.
Authorities say two ISIS flags, weapons and IEDs were recovered
near the scene.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Resistant while he still can and before the right to
complain is taken away from you, which will be the
next thing he will be told you can't complain because
you're Islamophobic. The term is already being introduced into the
culture as if it was an accusation of race hatred,
for example, or bigotry, whereas it's only the objection to
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the preachings of a very extreme and absolutist religion and
watch out for these symptoms. They are not the symptoms
of surrender.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, that's the great Christopher Hitchins, who I wish was
still alive to talk about what is going on in
the world with radical Islam, which he was a warrior against.
As you heard there in the news report, the two
killers there in Australia pledged their allegiance to Isis and
Christopher Hitchins identified many years ago that the Islamophobia was
(19:26):
going to be thrown at you anytime you tried to
point out the problems of radical Islam. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I kind of prefer the term fundamentalist Islam for reasons
we could talk about.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
That's sure. That's the same thing Bill Mars always talking about.
By the way, I'm not Aslamophobic. I'm not afraid of them, No, No,
I just don't like it as a political system for
a number of reasons. And they want to kill me.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I mean, it's not a radical interpretation of the Gospels
to believe that you should forgive your enemies. An fundamental
view of the Gospel, and a fundamentalist view of the
Koran includes a great deal of bloodshed and slavery, and
all sorts of things the Western world finds ab horrent.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It's just true, so Rich Lowry National Review writing the
Bondi Beach attack in Australia was shocking but not at
all surprising. Some of the details were distinctive and idyllic
spot on the Pacific Ocean instantly turned into a killing field,
a father son terror squad, But the basic picture of
radicalized Muslim immigrants targeting a gathering of Jews was drearily familiar.
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These events follow the same pattern because the fundamentalist version
of Islam is at its root hostile to Jews. Let's say,
for the sake of the argument, there was a refugee
flow of Unitarians, and some proportion of those unitarians were
antagonistic two traditional Christians, such so that they vandalized their businesses,
harassed them in the streets, and launched massive protests in
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favor of overseas unitarian terror groups. In that case, we'd
obviously cast a skeptical eye on unitarian immigration. Yet this
hasn't been true of Muslim immigration. That is obviously true, and.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Rich is such a reasonable, careful guy in his writings too.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He's no Bombrucker, no sick pun intended. What is the
reason for that? Does? Why does Islam get treated differently
than maybe anything else you can think of, where if
it had a violent wing, people would just accept that
that was true and try to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I really think it's the xenophilia of the leftist forces
in America and a bunch of other places. It is
so fundamental to their identities that they hate themselves and
embrace the foreign. I mean that that may be their
commandment number one, be contemptuous of your own culture and
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be generous or overlay forgiving in my mind, to other cultures.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And I think that's a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
They can't bring themselves to say, our culture, our laws,
our constitution are not only better than this other way
of approaching life, that other way of life is really sick.
They can't bring themselves to say that. If you know,
if it's hard for a rational human being to picture
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being that completely committed to.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
A mindset, you know, a lot of it is that. Obviously,
Some of it is fear, physical fear, Yes that if
I get on the wrong side of these people, they'll
kill me. Yes, true, which is you know, the Heckler's veto,
a violent version of the Heckler's veto right. And then
there's like the Prime Minister of Australia. It reminds me
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a lot of a bunch of European leaders, including Britain,
are a great granddaddy, which is absolutely twisting itself into knots.
For this very reason, there is a point of view that, oh,
my gosh, we allowed this much immigration from Muslim countries.
We have a certain percentage of those folks who are fundamentalists.
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We need to minimize conflict at all times. We need
to not talk about a division or that we reject
them or they reject us. We've got to just be
quiet and see if this goes away. You know what
I'm saying. They're just they're so afraid of conflict. They
think backing off of our principles or recognizing the truth
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will minimize conflict, and they're absolutely wrong. It just delays it. Well,
we had to take a we got suspended off the
radio quite a few years back when I made a
comment about drawing a picture of Muhammad.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
How did that was?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Why was that in the news at the time.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think it was in the wake of the Charlie
Ebdoh massacre, and there was somebody somewhere was going to
have a festival where you could I can't remember the particulars,
but and.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I believe I claimed I drew a picture of Muhammad
and then tore it up or something like that. Anyway,
we got suspended for a while because that is just
something you cannot do. Now, you could draw, you can
get you can get a picture of Jesus and whiz
on it and people will applaud and pheim and you'll
get in no trouble whatsoever. Or any other religion. And
(24:27):
I always use the example of you make fun of
Mormons and you got a hit Broadway show, but nobody
may going to make fun of Muslims at all. Combination
of political correctness and you're just playing afraid mm hmm.
Mormons made the steak of being nice, easygoing people who
will just you know, turn the other cheek right and
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let you make fun of them and continue to do
what they do. That the idea that you can't draw
a picture of Muhammad when you're not a Muslim, because
it would just be too You're in you're inviting, you
revoked it. If there's any violence you caused it because
you provoked. It is insane. It's anti Enlightenment, right, it is.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
That's exactly what it is. In Britain recently you've heard
about this. Probably a guy burned a Koran and a
Muslim man stabbed him for it. The burning got a
stiffer sentence than the stabbing. Yeah, and so all this
fits together. The retreating, backing down to fundamentalist Islam is
led to this, and it's getting worse, not better, right right.
(25:30):
I just read a piece from Julie Sago, who's an
Australian Jew. She writes, of all the difficult emotions I've
been forced to grapple with in the hour since two gunmen,
she describes it carried out a massacre of Jews at
Sydney's Bondai Beach. The most complicated is a bitter, dark
sense of vindication. Now do you believe us? I imagine
screaming at Australia's progressive intelligentsia, political and media class. Do
(25:53):
you believe Jew hatred is out of control? After the
most lethal terror attack on the nation soil has claimed
at least sixteen lives. And she goes into the victims,
including a beautiful little girl. They have been saying for
a yelling for years now, since October seventh. The Hamas
attacks of October seventh unleashed anti jew hatred around the world,
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and the progressive governments of the West have permitted it,
and the Jewish people have been begging for protection or
at least attention to the issue and not getting it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I have no reason to criticize any nonviolent religion in
your practice of it at all. If you're a devout
Muslim and that's your thing, but you don't want to
force everybody else into it, uh finds me. I don't care.
That's cool, good for you. I'm pro organized religion and
(26:49):
I would never want to make fun of it to
you or criticize you for it.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
But you know, the.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Everything changes. If you're trying to force everybody else into
a certain lifestyle, that's a completely different.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Thing, right right, And everybody knows from the cry the
chant from the river to the sea, Palestine will be
free or death, death to the IDF or globalize the
Intofada are specific threats against Jews. But in Europe, if
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you say something even mildly critical of Islam, you'll be arrested.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
For your tweet.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's absolutely a double standard, because the standard is did
you give offense? And if you have one group that
is by which is the embodiment of Western civilization saying
I don't want you, I don't appreciate your criticizing me,
but you get to in fact, I cherish your right
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to criticize my politics, my religion, my economy, whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Accept that. In fact I embrace it.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
And then on the other side, you have a group
that says if you criticize me, I will kill you,
I will hurt you, and the government, the Western government
stands up and says, well, that offended them. So you
can't say that, as you said, Jack, that's abandoning the
lessons of the Enlightenment. I mean, it's beyond perverse. It's well,
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it's suicidal. It's quite quite literally suicidal.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Have you. I don't think I have ever heard anybody
make that point about the uh what was that making
fun of the Mormons Broadway show? It played here in
Sacramento recently. Yeah, Book of Mormon, Book of Mormon. I've no,
I don't know if I've ever heard anybody else make
that point. And it's not to not have the Book
of Mormon musical.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
It's just a.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Come on now, you can't claim that anybody who mocks
Islam brings violence upon themselves. They caused it and make
fun of Mormons like that and make those make those
fit in a worldview to me, you're being hypocritical.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Well, yeah, it's very much like saying a woman can
say something to her spouse unless he will beat her
for it. I mean, so if you're gonna pick a
religion to make fun of it, and I'm sorry, can
we spend a second half second on that. You have
granted the individual husband the right to either beat his
(29:26):
wife or not beat his wife, depending on whether it
pissed him off. That's the opposite of equal protection of
their law. It's ob scene if.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You're going to pick a religion and then the most
extreme version of it to mock. Is there anything you
could go do more with than fundamentalist Islam and the
fact that you don't let women show their skin, among
other things, throw gay people off the top of buildings.
Can't write a musical about that that you could come
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up with some things to you know, poke at. It's
too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It's a difference between a religion of turning the other
cheek and a religion of kill those.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Who oppose us. That's wild. I'd say that's one word
for it. Yeah.
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It's good to be right. It is good to be right.
I'm seldom right. I have to only assume that it
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Speaker 1 (31:20):
When you're talking about fundamentalist Islam. And I was recently
reminded of this. The expansion of Islam is considered the
proof of its truth, and the success of Islam over
the centuries has been proof of the righteousness of the religion,
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and so any setback, any loss of territory, particularly in
the Middle East, you know, the birthplace of Islam, is
considered a horrific, horrific loss, setback, insult, threat to the
very soul of humanity, because remember, Mohammad was the seal
of the Prophet's, the last prophet, and they cannot accept that,
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they never will accept it. There will never be a
two state solution. There will only be waiting till they
can snuff the Jews.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's reality I've seen pieces recently in publications or heard
them on NPR or wherever about Christian nationalism, how scary
that is for the country, or all the young men
that are joining the Orthodox Church, how scary that might
be become. Where's your piece about fundamentalist Islam and how
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scary that is and how it's a problem. Never I've
I don't know if I've ever read one in a
New York Times or heard it on beer or an
NPR or anything like that. They're rare, for sure, ever
heard one? And this shooting in Australia NPR every day
it's all about guns and gun laws. You haven't talked
about extremist Muslims at.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
All, as far as I know, I want to talk
about useful idiots, my god.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
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Speaker 2 (33:19):
Lot, so they had pictures up there obviously, and the
you know, good luck guessing which is which? It was.
It was not easy to tell which which was the
woman with the two dudes there having sex in the
parking lot there of the the diner probably figured it
out eventually, I would imagine. I assume when they set
out at the beginning they had an idea. I don't know.
(33:43):
So we got people donating to boy Scouts, some funny names.
We'll do a total maybe an hour. Four Dead Flowers
fan club president though in for twenty five bucks. That's jokes,
old man. Thanks d Effors FC president guy president. There
you go, early dinner donated fifty bucks. Appreciate that glad
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that lives on. And my favorite was an early dinner
and my favorite twenty five bucks from Michelangelo's toe. Hey,
thank you. Wow, that's odd. Michelangelo's diabetes toe. How's that going, Michael? Oh,
I'm doing good now, you seem to me. Yeah, yeah,
I'm hanging in there. How are you doing? In terms
of eating the way you're supposed to eat? Is a
(34:25):
guy with diabetes.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
Overall pretty good? But I slip sometimes Sometimes you just
get that craving for something sweet. But if I eat
something sweet, I run it off, is what I do.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Have you talked to your doctors about like the artificial
sweetener stuff and all. I mean, because there's a lot
of stuff that. I mean, it's sweet to the point
of that it's just disgusting, but it has no sugar
in it.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Yeah, I need to explore more sugar free options.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
But uh, yeah, real stuff. How strict are you supposed
to be? Well?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
For me, I'm not that bad.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
I mean some people have it's much worse. Everybody's a
little bit different. But I'm able to control it. I
have a little meter on my skin that uh tells
me where I'm at, and I just kind of followed
the meter.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
But if your wife hadn't pushed you go to the
doctor when she noticed something wrong with your toe, yeah,
you could have lost your foot, your leg.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
I I really don't know how bad it would have gotten.
But yeah, if you don't treat it, it can get
really bad. You can lose limbs and toes and things
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yes, is this Katie?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I do?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I do want to give Michael credit. When he was
leaving the gym yesterday, there was an entire table of
cookies and I saw it.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Oh yeah, I saw yeah, But seriously, whose idea was
it to Hey, let's set up a couple of tables.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
And just load it with treats. Here at the gym,
what was that committee meeting? Like, I don't know. The
new Kevin Hart comedy special that's on Netflix that I
watch here today's pretty dang funny. But anyway, he was
talking about how he didn't he was at a big gathering,
family gathering, and he didn't order desert at the restaurant.
(35:57):
And one of his uncles was like, wow, oh, you're
too big for dessert to mister Hollywood, won't eat desert
with those everything like that, And Kevin Hart said, look
under the table, all I see is a whole bunch
of left feet. Oh my god. We don't know how
this family is. I guess in the black community, particularly.
He says in his comedy special, it's a diabetes is
a big problem. Yeah, that's true, losing your foot. Good lord,
(36:20):
what's a dark joke. Everybody laughed, Wow, got big laughs.
This is might get laughs from you. So Katie had
the story earlier of moms who were getting involved in
their kids bumble profiles because they're twenty something or thirty somethings,
aren't married yet and they're thinking maybe they could spruce
it up for him. We got this text. My mom
(36:42):
helped me with my profile. Is she wanted something more
positive than single divorced dad. That's only hope. As you're
shreking me is remember shrekking? Is shreking is still a thing?
Or was there actually a thing? Dating someone? For women
dating a dude you know has been which is a
horrible term, because they'll be nicer to you.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
They'll worship you in a desperate attempt to hold onto you. Yes,
they'll treat you better. That's Shrek and you're dating Shrek
because they'll treat you better.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I don't like humans. Good good luck with your life.
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
I have to say, the drugs coming in by sea
are down ninety four percent, and we're trying to figure
out who the other six percent are.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But they're down ninety four percent. We're going to start
hitting them on land, which is a lot easier to do. Frankly, WHOA.
Once again he's saying we're going to hit him on land.
So they released three more videos overnight, three more boats
that we blew out on the water dependent on and
so that's quite a few boats over the period of time,
and Trump once again mentioning we're going to start hit
them on land. So there you go on that story.
(00:55):
This is kind of breaking twenty twenty eight presidential news,
which I hate coming out of my mouth because we
spend way too much time talking about the president of
the United States. But Marco Rubio has ruled out running
if jd. Vance decides to run, which is pretty big
news because most people that I follow seem to think
that was going to be the big battle between Rubio
and Vance, and Rubio said if he runs, I'm not running.
(01:18):
HM might be a glide path for JD. Vance to
the nomination could be Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So also a big political news New York Times is
out with a blockbuster story compiling a bunch of things
Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, has said in a
long series of interviews over the first year of mister
Trump's second term with the author Chris Whipple, who's written
a highly respected book about I'm told about presidential chiefs
(01:48):
of staff.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And then she tweets like we mentioned just last hour.
Then she has tweeted, they took this stuff out of
context and mischaracterized me. But I don't know. I don't
know what that means.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And there are all sorts of quotes that are getting attention.
Jade Vance has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade
and changed from Trump critic at to ally for sort
of political reasons because he was running for Senate.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So how, I'm like, I don't know how that could
be taken out of context. I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
She might not be talking about that, because there are
a dozen a dozen quotes at least that are getting attention.
Elon Musk is an avowed ketamine user and an odd,
odd duck whose actions were not always rational or left
her a gas. That's a several quotes in that sentence.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That one doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Let's see, I want my inventor.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Disruptors to be kind of crazy. That's their job, right.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Attorney General Pambondi completely whiffed in handling the Epstein files,
which she did shared Trump not to parton the most
violent rioters. I'm just going to run through the list, but.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Of all of me you mentioned a couple hours ago,
and now I can't imagine any of them being in
any different context that would make them any less quite amazing.
I mean for her to come out and say I
didn't think Trump should appall pardoned the most violent of
the January sixth people, Let's why did she do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, last hour we were talking about how she says
Trump has an alcoholics personality.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We dealt with that a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
She grew up with an alcoholic dad, the famous Pat
Summer all, the great sports caster.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm going to get to the new part in just
a second.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Let's see Miss Wiles confided in mister Whipple in March
that she told mister Trump that his presidency was not
supposed to be a retribution tour and to quit focusing
on that. We have a loose agreement that the score
settling will end before the first ninety days are over,
she said. Then, when it did not happen by August,
she told mister Whipple that quote, I don't think he's
on a retribution tour, but said that he was aiming
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at people who did bad things and coming after him.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
In some cases may look like retribution, and there may
be an element of that from time to time.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Who would blame him?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Not me?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Again, that's a I think that is enough. But here's
let's say.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Reach for comment Monday Evening by The New York Times,
mis Wils played down mister Trump's personal motivations in the
actions against his enemies. Let's see and then let's see,
where's the the BONDI stuff's pretty critical. No evidence that
(04:30):
Clinton went to Epstein Island. Oh all right, here's where
it starts to get really interesting. She added that it
was Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's idea to go interview
Gilaine Maxwell in prison, and that the president did not
know that she would be transferred to a minimum security
prison camp. Quote, the president was ticked. The President was
(04:50):
mighty unhappy. I don't know why they moved her. Neither
does the president.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
WHOA, that is news. But wait a minute. The president
of the United States can't pick.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Up the phone and call the federal prison system and say, hey, dudes,
what happened here?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, we'll call you back. Click. Come on. Why'd she
get moved? Then? Did somebody move her thinking she had
something on Trump and they're trying to protect him. I
don't know, and she claims she doesn't know, nieda does
the president. That's the biggest mystery in the whole Epstein thing.
To me, seems pretty clear to me what happened, but
(05:29):
nobody's admitted me. Were those pictures that came out last
week and a nothing burger that the media once again
traded like news.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah what oh? That was horrible. That was so nakedly
just clickbait. But it's the business there, and they're not
in the news business. They're in the clickbait business, remember that?
And so so. Wiles described frustration with mister Muski's not
odd duck as I think geniuses are you know it's
not helpful, but he is his own person. And they
(06:00):
were talking about when Elon shared a post sing the
stalin MAO and Hitler didn't murder millions their public sector workers.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Did, good Lord.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Miss Wilds said quote, I think that's what he's microdosing.
Asked what she meant, she said, he's an avowed ketamine user. Now,
mister Musk's acknowledged trying kedemene a few years ago, but
Dunn i'd reports of more recent use now. In the
interview at The Times on Monday, Mis Wilds took issue
with the quote attributed to her about the drug use.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous, she said. I wouldn't have said it,
and I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But mister Whipple, contacted by The Times, played them the
tape in which she can be heard saying it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh okay, some of this stuff she did say, and
now that it's out in the newspaper, she's wishing she hadn't.
I don't know how that works. I don't know how
people end up with, especially somebody like her. You're not
like me, like just a regular person that doesn't understand
how the world works. I mean you're weird in the
shark tank and happened for years. You know what you
(07:04):
can and can't say, and how it's going to be
used in a book or an article. Here's a question
for you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Was that the week when Trump was openly feuding with
Elon she thought she could go ahead and say it.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I don't know, so, I don't know much about the
whole ketamine thing. I know it killed Chandler, But did
people do it recreationally and fine? And is it a
big deal? I mean, is it like being a matthewser
or I don't think it's like that exactly. But that's
my take has been a number of people do it
in a healthy way. It's good for you.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
There are a handful of drugs ketamine, psilocybin, which is
the active ingredient, mushrooms, and a couple of the things
that people microdose. They say it makes them more relaxed
and happy, but they're not high. They're just like barely
barely barely well, they're less angsty. And evidently somebody said
he was microdosing. But anyway, then this is to me
(07:57):
just interesting, she offered. Uh. She was initially aghast about
the cuts to us aid because I think that overall
they do very good work. She offered no objection to
mister Trump's saber rattling against Venezuela and bombing of boats
carrying alleged drug traffickers. Quote he wants to keep on
blowing up boats until Maduro cries uncle. And people way
(08:20):
smarter and may say that he will, or may way
smarter than me on that say he will.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That's what I assumed was going on.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, yeah, She expressed misgivings about how the roundup of
immigrants has been carried out. At times, I will conceide
that we've got to look harder at our process for deportation.
But if there's a question, I think our process has
to lean toward a double check.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, So what stands out as a big deal here?
Like I'm looking at our friend Tim Sanderfer, who we love,
tweeted out, even in an atmosphere of NonStop jaw dropping insanity,
this is something and links to this article. What is
standing out to people as like real jaw dropping holy crap?
(09:05):
Not wow, that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I mean, it's it's a remarkable insider look at a
White House before it leaves office, which is something. But
I think a lot of this could fall under the
umbrella of there are disagreements within the administration, then they
come to a decision and proceed. And I mean, we
want that right, We want people saying, well, that might
(09:28):
be a bad idea, cause.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Is there anybody that didn't think Elon was odd, or
that Pam Bondi whiffed on Epstein, or that I don't
know several of the.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Other ones you mentioned, here's a story for you. Well, no,
you're absolutely right. Your rhetorical question is absolutely right. Let's see.
As for the potential successors to this point, mister Vance
and minister Ruvio. She distinguished how each of them came
around to supporting mister Trump after initially opposing him. Quote,
Marco is not the sort of person that would violate
(09:58):
his principles. He just won't, and so he had to
get there. As for mister Vance, quote, his conversion came
when he was running for the Senate, and I think
his conversion was a little more sort of political.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, that's what I thought happened. I mean, maybe maybe
her saying that out loud is big news in the
high school gossip corridors of Washington.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
D C.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But I don't know. I thought that was pretty obvious.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
In the final note on this, mister Rubio, and it's funny,
mister Rubio told mister Whipple, the author, that he has
said publicly that quote.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
If JD.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Vance runs for president, He's going to be our nominee
and I'll be one of the first people to support him.
Still listen to this from the New York Times. Still,
the underlying tension came through when mister Vance posed for
the magazine's photographer quote, I'll give you one hundred dollars
for every person you look. You may look really s
compared to me, Vance joked, and a thousand If it's
(10:51):
Marco that showed the underlying tension that Vance said, Hey,
make everybody look crappier than me, and I'll give you
a hundred dollars per thousand bucks. If it's Marko, hah,
it shows underlying tension and not a former marine who's
got a really good sense in humor.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's underlying tension. Sounds like a joke. Okay, I still,
yet my jaw is not dropped to my jaws in
its normal spot. Perhaps you have lockjawn. Have you been
bitten by a hyena lately, or any jaws in its
normal spot. I did step on a rusty nail the
other day, my jaws, and it's a normal place. It
has not dropped yet from any of those revelations. Well,
that's I confused hydrophobia with the rabies with tetanus. My
(11:34):
my apologies. I'm not a physician.
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Enjoy the deliciousness. To me, what should be the biggest
story this week is what happened in Australia, just because
it's in fitting with the ongoing conversation of what do
we do about radical Islam around the world that seems
to be reasserting itself and making its way into all
kinds of countries wanting to take over. Talk more about
that a little bit later, among other things.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Atlanta resident Tanya Shepherd says it happened to her in
the middle of the day last month, a thief stealing
our packages on a busy street. Shepherd's packages were among
the roughly two hundred and fifty thousand that are stolen
nationwide every day. A study from home safety research company
safe Wise estimated the total value of the items lost
in the past year alone at nearly fifteen billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That's something two hundred and fifty thousand packages stolen from
porches daily a quarter of a million a day. To me,
it's like horse thievery hangings. You got to make the
punishment so awful that people don't want to do it
(13:48):
because it's so easy to do. Yeah, wow, that's something despicable.
I'm I'm guessing that a lot of the boy Scouts
I know are not going to steal stuff off of
people's portes. That's my transition into raising money for Scouting
this week and the idea that hey, it costs a
couple hundred bucks, depending on your situation, to have your
kid get into Scouts, into the Scouts, and so we're
(14:10):
going to try to raise enough money that a whole
bunch of kids who want to join the Scouts can.
You don't have to come up with the money. Don't
want the family not having the money being the difference
between joining Scouts or not. And that's why we're raising
money this week, hoping to raise one hundred thousand dollars.
We'll hit you with a total here in a little bit,
but so donations so far one hundred bucks from Elvis
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Presley Christmas albums. These are people with funny names for
their their Jack's pocket fork in for fifty dollars. Thank
you very much. Oh, thank you, fork. Yeah, keep wishing
that pig good luck. Donated fifty bucks. Now, Katie, you
do not know that story, Hey don't. So we're at
a restaurant and we come out of the restaurant and
(14:53):
outside on the street, they're barbecuing a pig on a spit.
And if you've ever seen that, it just looks like
a pig, you know, it looks like. I have a
rough time looking at that. But yeah, so did my
three and a half year old four year old son
Sam at the time, because he was at that age
where you know, animals are what you see in cartoons
(15:14):
and movies and they're they're practically like people and all
that sort of stuff. Anyway, And and I wouldn't have
wanted him to look at that, I mean, if I'd
have known it was there. But we come out of
the restaurant and right there in front of us is
this pig on a spit being turned with an apple
in its mouth, eyes open. I mean, it just looks
like a living pig. I mean, they just started and
(15:36):
we start walking and Sam gets tears in his eyes,
and I can tell he's all chucked him. I said,
what's up, buddy? He said, I want to go wish
that pig good luck. Oh oh oh, oh my god.
So that's what that is. Keep wishing that pig good luck.
Donated fifty dollars. Jeez, I know that that's traumatized. Yeah
(16:00):
that young Yes, yes, oh he was, he was. He
was busted up over it. I want to go wish
that pig good luck. I said, it's ty it's death
as a hammer. There you go. That's good parenting right there. Uh,
we got fifty bucks from stupid should hurt appreciate that,
and a whole bunch of other people using their names
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Speaker 1 (17:25):
You're talking in the abstract about things other people have
told you. Not the radio rants.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Certain, No, No, I've not seen that at the radio
station at allt through the years, repeated outrageous thought. Oh boy,
uh Rich Lowry with a pretty good piece about this
whole Islam immigration problem that we got around the country
and this should be a pretty good yet another wake
(17:51):
up call. What happened in Australia Australia over the weekend. No, NPR,
guns aren't the issue. Gun laws are the issue. Fundamentalist
Muslims move into countries and want to guild Jews or
take over the government. That's the issue. Good Lord. Anyway,
we'll talk about that and other things on the way.
(18:12):
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Speaker 4 (18:20):
The two shooters our fifty year old father, Sajid Akram
and his twenty four year old son Navid. Sources say
they pledged allegiance to ISIS and shouted Aluakba while opening fire.
Authorities say two ISIS flags, weapons and IEDs were recovered
near the scene.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Resistant while he still can and before the right to
complain is taken away from you, which will be the
next thing he will be told you can't complain because
you're Islamophobic. The term is already being introduced into the
culture as if it was an accusation of race hatred,
for example, or bigotry, whereas it's only the objection to
(18:57):
the preachings of a very extreme and absolutist religion and
watch out for these symptoms. They are not the symptoms
of surrender.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, that's the great Christopher Hitchins, who I wish was
still alive to talk about what is going on in
the world with radical Islam, which he was a warrior against.
As you heard there in the news report, the two
killers there in Australia pledged their allegiance to Isis and
Christopher Hitchins identified many years ago that the Islamophobia was
(19:26):
going to be thrown at you anytime you tried to
point out the problems of radical Islam. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I kind of prefer the term fundamentalist Islam for reasons
we could talk about.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
That's sure. That's the same thing Bill Mars always talking about.
By the way, I'm not Aslamophobic. I'm not afraid of them, No, No,
I just don't like it as a political system for
a number of reasons. And they want to kill me.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I mean, it's not a radical interpretation of the Gospels
to believe that you should forgive your enemies. An fundamental
view of the Gospel, and a fundamentalist view of the
Koran includes a great deal of bloodshed and slavery, and
all sorts of things the Western world finds ab horrent.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It's just true, so Rich Lowry National Review writing the
Bondi Beach attack in Australia was shocking but not at
all surprising. Some of the details were distinctive and idyllic
spot on the Pacific Ocean instantly turned into a killing field,
a father son terror squad, But the basic picture of
radicalized Muslim immigrants targeting a gathering of Jews was drearily familiar.
(20:33):
These events follow the same pattern because the fundamentalist version
of Islam is at its root hostile to Jews. Let's say,
for the sake of the argument, there was a refugee
flow of Unitarians, and some proportion of those unitarians were
antagonistic two traditional Christians, such so that they vandalized their businesses,
harassed them in the streets, and launched massive protests in
(20:56):
favor of overseas unitarian terror groups. In that case, we'd
obviously cast a skeptical eye on unitarian immigration. Yet this
hasn't been true of Muslim immigration. That is obviously true, and.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Rich is such a reasonable, careful guy in his writings too.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He's no Bombrucker, no sick pun intended. What is the
reason for that? Does? Why does Islam get treated differently
than maybe anything else you can think of, where if
it had a violent wing, people would just accept that
that was true and try to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I really think it's the xenophilia of the leftist forces
in America and a bunch of other places. It is
so fundamental to their identities that they hate themselves and
embrace the foreign. I mean that that may be their
commandment number one, be contemptuous of your own culture and
(21:59):
be generous or overlay forgiving in my mind, to other cultures.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And I think that's a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
They can't bring themselves to say, our culture, our laws,
our constitution are not only better than this other way
of approaching life, that other way of life is really sick.
They can't bring themselves to say that. If you know,
if it's hard for a rational human being to picture
(22:27):
being that completely committed to.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
A mindset, you know, a lot of it is that. Obviously,
Some of it is fear, physical fear, Yes that if
I get on the wrong side of these people, they'll
kill me. Yes, true, which is you know, the Heckler's veto,
a violent version of the Heckler's veto right. And then
there's like the Prime Minister of Australia. It reminds me
(22:49):
a lot of a bunch of European leaders, including Britain,
are a great granddaddy, which is absolutely twisting itself into knots.
For this very reason, there is a point of view that, oh,
my gosh, we allowed this much immigration from Muslim countries.
We have a certain percentage of those folks who are fundamentalists.
(23:09):
We need to minimize conflict at all times. We need
to not talk about a division or that we reject
them or they reject us. We've got to just be
quiet and see if this goes away. You know what
I'm saying. They're just they're so afraid of conflict. They
think backing off of our principles or recognizing the truth
(23:31):
will minimize conflict, and they're absolutely wrong. It just delays it. Well,
we had to take a we got suspended off the
radio quite a few years back when I made a
comment about drawing a picture of Muhammad.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
How did that was?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Why was that in the news at the time.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think it was in the wake of the Charlie
Ebdoh massacre, and there was somebody somewhere was going to
have a festival where you could I can't remember the particulars,
but and.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I believe I claimed I drew a picture of Muhammad
and then tore it up or something like that. Anyway,
we got suspended for a while because that is just
something you cannot do. Now, you could draw, you can
get you can get a picture of Jesus and whiz
on it and people will applaud and pheim and you'll
get in no trouble whatsoever. Or any other religion. And
(24:27):
I always use the example of you make fun of
Mormons and you got a hit Broadway show, but nobody
may going to make fun of Muslims at all. Combination
of political correctness and you're just playing afraid mm hmm.
Mormons made the steak of being nice, easygoing people who
will just you know, turn the other cheek right and
(24:48):
let you make fun of them and continue to do
what they do. That the idea that you can't draw
a picture of Muhammad when you're not a Muslim, because
it would just be too You're in you're inviting, you
revoked it. If there's any violence you caused it because
you provoked. It is insane. It's anti Enlightenment, right, it is.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
That's exactly what it is. In Britain recently you've heard
about this. Probably a guy burned a Koran and a
Muslim man stabbed him for it. The burning got a
stiffer sentence than the stabbing. Yeah, and so all this
fits together. The retreating, backing down to fundamentalist Islam is
led to this, and it's getting worse, not better, right right.
(25:30):
I just read a piece from Julie Sago, who's an
Australian Jew. She writes, of all the difficult emotions I've
been forced to grapple with in the hour since two gunmen,
she describes it carried out a massacre of Jews at
Sydney's Bondai Beach. The most complicated is a bitter, dark
sense of vindication. Now do you believe us? I imagine
screaming at Australia's progressive intelligentsia, political and media class. Do
(25:53):
you believe Jew hatred is out of control? After the
most lethal terror attack on the nation soil has claimed
at least sixteen lives. And she goes into the victims,
including a beautiful little girl. They have been saying for
a yelling for years now, since October seventh. The Hamas
attacks of October seventh unleashed anti jew hatred around the world,
(26:18):
and the progressive governments of the West have permitted it,
and the Jewish people have been begging for protection or
at least attention to the issue and not getting it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I have no reason to criticize any nonviolent religion in
your practice of it at all. If you're a devout
Muslim and that's your thing, but you don't want to
force everybody else into it, uh finds me. I don't care.
That's cool, good for you. I'm pro organized religion and
(26:49):
I would never want to make fun of it to
you or criticize you for it.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
But you know, the.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Everything changes. If you're trying to force everybody else into
a certain lifestyle, that's a completely different.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Thing, right right, And everybody knows from the cry the
chant from the river to the sea, Palestine will be
free or death, death to the IDF or globalize the
Intofada are specific threats against Jews. But in Europe, if
(27:27):
you say something even mildly critical of Islam, you'll be arrested.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
For your tweet.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's absolutely a double standard, because the standard is did
you give offense? And if you have one group that
is by which is the embodiment of Western civilization saying
I don't want you, I don't appreciate your criticizing me,
but you get to in fact, I cherish your right
(27:53):
to criticize my politics, my religion, my economy, whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Accept that. In fact I embrace it.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
And then on the other side, you have a group
that says if you criticize me, I will kill you,
I will hurt you, and the government, the Western government
stands up and says, well, that offended them. So you
can't say that, as you said, Jack, that's abandoning the
lessons of the Enlightenment. I mean, it's beyond perverse. It's well,
(28:21):
it's suicidal. It's quite quite literally suicidal.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Have you. I don't think I have ever heard anybody
make that point about the uh what was that making
fun of the Mormons Broadway show? It played here in
Sacramento recently. Yeah, Book of Mormon, Book of Mormon. I've no,
I don't know if I've ever heard anybody else make
that point. And it's not to not have the Book
of Mormon musical.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
It's just a.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Come on now, you can't claim that anybody who mocks
Islam brings violence upon themselves. They caused it and make
fun of Mormons like that and make those make those
fit in a worldview to me, you're being hypocritical.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Well, yeah, it's very much like saying a woman can
say something to her spouse unless he will beat her
for it. I mean, so if you're gonna pick a
religion to make fun of it, and I'm sorry, can
we spend a second half second on that. You have
granted the individual husband the right to either beat his
(29:26):
wife or not beat his wife, depending on whether it
pissed him off. That's the opposite of equal protection of
their law. It's ob scene if.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You're going to pick a religion and then the most
extreme version of it to mock. Is there anything you
could go do more with than fundamentalist Islam and the
fact that you don't let women show their skin, among
other things, throw gay people off the top of buildings.
Can't write a musical about that that you could come
(29:55):
up with some things to you know, poke at. It's
too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It's a difference between a religion of turning the other
cheek and a religion of kill those.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Who oppose us. That's wild. I'd say that's one word
for it. Yeah.
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It's good to be right. It is good to be right.
I'm seldom right. I have to only assume that it
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Speaker 1 (31:20):
When you're talking about fundamentalist Islam. And I was recently
reminded of this. The expansion of Islam is considered the
proof of its truth, and the success of Islam over
the centuries has been proof of the righteousness of the religion,
(31:42):
and so any setback, any loss of territory, particularly in
the Middle East, you know, the birthplace of Islam, is
considered a horrific, horrific loss, setback, insult, threat to the
very soul of humanity, because remember, Mohammad was the seal
of the Prophet's, the last prophet, and they cannot accept that,
(32:05):
they never will accept it. There will never be a
two state solution. There will only be waiting till they
can snuff the Jews.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's reality I've seen pieces recently in publications or heard
them on NPR or wherever about Christian nationalism, how scary
that is for the country, or all the young men
that are joining the Orthodox Church, how scary that might
be become. Where's your piece about fundamentalist Islam and how
(32:33):
scary that is and how it's a problem. Never I've
I don't know if I've ever read one in a
New York Times or heard it on beer or an
NPR or anything like that. They're rare, for sure, ever
heard one? And this shooting in Australia NPR every day
it's all about guns and gun laws. You haven't talked
about extremist Muslims at.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
All, as far as I know, I want to talk
about useful idiots, my god.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
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Police in Florida arrested two men and a woman a
good luck guessing which is which after they were discovered
having drunken sex and a Win Dixie parking lot. The
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Speaker 2 (33:19):
Lot, so they had pictures up there obviously, and the
you know, good luck guessing which is which? It was.
It was not easy to tell which which was the
woman with the two dudes there having sex in the
parking lot there of the the diner probably figured it
out eventually, I would imagine. I assume when they set
out at the beginning they had an idea. I don't know.
(33:43):
So we got people donating to boy Scouts, some funny names.
We'll do a total maybe an hour. Four Dead Flowers
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that lives on. And my favorite was an early dinner
and my favorite twenty five bucks from Michelangelo's toe. Hey,
thank you. Wow, that's odd. Michelangelo's diabetes toe. How's that going, Michael? Oh,
I'm doing good now, you seem to me. Yeah, yeah,
I'm hanging in there. How are you doing? In terms
of eating the way you're supposed to eat? Is a
(34:25):
guy with diabetes.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
Overall pretty good? But I slip sometimes Sometimes you just
get that craving for something sweet. But if I eat
something sweet, I run it off, is what I do.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Have you talked to your doctors about like the artificial
sweetener stuff and all. I mean, because there's a lot
of stuff that. I mean, it's sweet to the point
of that it's just disgusting, but it has no sugar
in it.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Yeah, I need to explore more sugar free options.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
But uh, yeah, real stuff. How strict are you supposed
to be? Well?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
For me, I'm not that bad.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
I mean some people have it's much worse. Everybody's a
little bit different. But I'm able to control it. I
have a little meter on my skin that uh tells
me where I'm at, and I just kind of followed
the meter.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
But if your wife hadn't pushed you go to the
doctor when she noticed something wrong with your toe, yeah,
you could have lost your foot, your leg.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
I I really don't know how bad it would have gotten.
But yeah, if you don't treat it, it can get
really bad. You can lose limbs and toes and things
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yes, is this Katie?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I do?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I do want to give Michael credit. When he was
leaving the gym yesterday, there was an entire table of
cookies and I saw it.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Oh yeah, I saw yeah, But seriously, whose idea was
it to Hey, let's set up a couple of tables.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
And just load it with treats. Here at the gym,
what was that committee meeting? Like, I don't know. The
new Kevin Hart comedy special that's on Netflix that I
watch here today's pretty dang funny. But anyway, he was
talking about how he didn't he was at a big gathering,
family gathering, and he didn't order desert at the restaurant.
(35:57):
And one of his uncles was like, wow, oh, you're
too big for dessert to mister Hollywood, won't eat desert
with those everything like that, And Kevin Hart said, look
under the table, all I see is a whole bunch
of left feet. Oh my god. We don't know how
this family is. I guess in the black community, particularly.
He says in his comedy special, it's a diabetes is
a big problem. Yeah, that's true, losing your foot. Good lord,
(36:20):
what's a dark joke. Everybody laughed, Wow, got big laughs.
This is might get laughs from you. So Katie had
the story earlier of moms who were getting involved in
their kids bumble profiles because they're twenty something or thirty somethings,
aren't married yet and they're thinking maybe they could spruce
it up for him. We got this text. My mom
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helped me with my profile. Is she wanted something more
positive than single divorced dad. That's only hope. As you're
shreking me is remember shrekking? Is shreking is still a thing?
Or was there actually a thing? Dating someone? For women
dating a dude you know has been which is a
horrible term, because they'll be nicer to you.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
They'll worship you in a desperate attempt to hold onto you. Yes,
they'll treat you better. That's Shrek and you're dating Shrek
because they'll treat you better.
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