January 7, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Anniversary of LA wildfires & the cover up
- New quarter & bowling
- New dietary restrictions
- "Invading" Greenland
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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 arm Strong
and Gatty and he Armstrong and Eddy. Hi, everybody. It
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was a year ago today that one of the most
expensive natural disasters in US history started.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
January seventh, twenty twenty five, ten thirty am.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The smoke and the ash is so thick you can't
even see. Everything is on fire.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Fire breaks out in the Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh No.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hours later, another ignites in Altadena under a transmission tower.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
This man nearly.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Catches fire trying to save someone inside. Thirty one killed,
twelve thousand homes, destroyed, you.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Right here that we built here to just be gone
in ours. It's just an awful feeling to lose everything
that you've had all those years. Twelve thousand homes. And
I remember texting with the friends in both of those
locations who were fleeing for their lives at the time.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, unbelievable loss, but we will rebuild maybe someday.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Despite no rain for eight months and a dire weather forecast,
Mayor Karen Bass leaves the country. The water department drained
a major reservoir above the Palisades for a maintenance project.
Firefighters are literally using the garden hose to fill up
their truck, and the fire chief, despite claims to the contrary.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
We pre deployed the resources in very, very calculated ways
throughout the city.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Staffed and pre deployed just three of more than forty
available engines, while seventy five more set idle in the mat.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
There were so many places still standing on the eighth
and no fire trucks to put them out.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Sue Pasco lost her home in the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's been a whole year of cover ups. Wow, oh yeah,
where to even start with it. We don't do a
good job, I guess because we're so comfortable and safe
in this country, we really don't do a good job
of holding I can't say people's feet to the fire
in this story, holding people accountable when screw ups happen,
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we just don't. Part of it is our attention span
we move on to the next thing. Part of it
is just an ingrained uh you know, whichever side it
is politically, their side, rallies round them until you can
until everybody's attention span moves on to the next thing.
Or something, but we don't do a good job of
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holding people accountable for failures of the state. Right right.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You mentioned one aspect of this in which the priorities
are upside down, and that's bureaucracy. To protect bureaucracies and
not people from being burned to death and their.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Houses burning down.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Now the other thing is in this is a bit
of a tangent, but I'm distracted. I'm absolutely sure there
are some great female firefighters in the world, but this
is California we're talking about, and of course the fire
chief is a woman.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Of course, of the very pretty.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Small percentage of firefighters in the world and cops in
the world, it seems in your big blue cities it
is always a woman, and if possible, a woman of
color who heads up the department, never mind whether they're
an ass kicking administrator who won't take no for an
answer and protects the people, because that's their job.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Now it's a DEI.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Hire And to those one hundred percent qualified women in
those I apologize, But that's the perception.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That forms when you have DEI. Of course it does.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Anyway, back to the main thread of the thing. William
Lauginess for Fox News goes on.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So the cover ups that she is referring to, among
other things, is number one, the fire that ignited the
Palisades fire. They never put it out. They didn't use
bulldozers because they were worried about an endangered plant. They
pulled up hoses while the fire was still smoldering. But
most importantly, there was this after action report. They have
now admitted. The city admitted that they watered it down.
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They changed critical elements of it that were critical of
the agency to save people at the top from embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How do you like that, Well, you either put up
with that or you don't. Voters and people put up
with that if it's their party.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You've almost got to have an independent, private commission get
to the bottom of it, and the bureaucrats get zero
zero right to addit the reports, or just have a
private organization run your fire department and if they suck
you fire them.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And even if you could put together this commission, independent
commission and they really laid out the truth, do you
think people would vote differently and you'd end up with
a different crew in charge, or would they say I
hate Trump, I'm gonna continue to vote Temocrat. Things have
to get really really stupid. Is that what you're implying. Well,
voters are partisan, man, and it takes a lot to
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get them to change. I use San Francisco as an example.
I spent a couple of nights there before Christmas, my
son's birthday. We stayed at the nice hotel there in
Union Square, and it's fantastic. It's like San Francisco used
to be. A lot of the stores aren't there anymore.
But I didn't see a single homeless person. I mean,
but that city had to get so bad before voters
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were willing to try something different. I mean it. It
was ridiculous how far it had to go before voters
were willing to try something different. And then the something
different was able to improve things very quickly with some
more reasonable policies, because policy does matter. But I don't
know how bad things would have to get in LA
before they'd be willing to try something different.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I'm curious to hear this as well. This is Rick
Caruso and somebody else on CNN's The Story is talking
about the same story.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
This fire we know now was completely preventable.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Just think about that now.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Some of us were talking about that months and months
and months ago, and we were sort of looked at like, no,
it was the wind. You couldn't have stopped it. The
Elm fire on January one was never.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Put out right sore was there was? For people that
don't fillow this that closely. There was a smaller fire
that happened on January first. Some firefighters said we need
to stay behind, and we're worried about the hotspot if
they were pulled away from that pulled abandoned site. There
was no pre deployment to the Pacific Palisades when in
the forecast was eighty to one hundred miles and out wins.
Fire explodes in Pacific Palisades. There's no firefighters there. Eventually
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the firefighters get there and eventually they run out of water.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And then, as I interjected in the middle of it,
the moment this happened, Gavin Newsom was on TV saying
this was climate change.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't know what else to say. No either, it's
just it's depressing.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Uh yeah, yeah it is. I'm depressed. That's your evidence.
It's depressing.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I think a lot of it might come down to
our current partisan situation where just nobody gives an inch
of on their side. Ever, So if your side to
something that's demonstrably awful, uh, you's still you're still not
going to go. You know, you're not going to be
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one of those people. Right.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, you feel like you're in a never ending war
against the evil doers on the other side, So there's
no time for a court martial during war of somebody
on your side who's plainly a baddie. So you just
let it go till later. But later never comes because
you're always at war. And it's worth pointing out. Look,
there's a lot of money in always being at war.
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Most of talk radio stokes it as hard as they can,
and most of politics does because there's so much.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Money to be made at it.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
People don't donate a fraction of what they do when
you convince them the other side are going to ruin
the country and their evil doers, which in some cases
I actually believe, but in some cases not true.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And this is a perfect example.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We need fire services in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles
area and your area to my friends, wherever you happen
to be, that serves the people and is not a fat,
rich bureaucracy that protects itself life and death is at
stake here?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Can we all agree on that?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And if the answer is, well, that means getting rid
of excuse me a Democrat. The answer is no, we
can't agree on that. I'm going to keep voting, or
I'm going to pretend that the those Democrats weren't horrifically
incompetent because I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Always at war even when there's no war to be fought.
Government waste is your favorite example. Why aren't Democrats who
want like extensive social programs, help for the meddal ill
drug counseling, whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Why aren't you anti government waste? Why you want to
spend the money to do good stuff?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Right the whole Minnesota thing where it turns out a
lot of those billions of dollars were specifically autism programs.
That was the easiest way to rip off the taxpayer
was to claim you were doing some sort of autism
school or something to steal the money and nobody paying attention. God,
those of you who care about kids and autism, you
should want them, no matter what their political party is,
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to end up in jail. Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.
You want to be no war adamant or as adamant
than conservatives yes, you should be more adamant than conservatives,
because in many cases conservatives don't like some of these programs.
They think there are a waste of money or not
state government or federal government's job, or whatever this situation is.
But you'll immediately go with Trump is trying to turn
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the You know, he's racist. It's because Somali's in racism.
It's not because people were stealing money from autistic kids
by the billions. Don't turn it into a Trump thing.
And the same thing with the fire right right very frustrated.
Oh is there any bouncing back from this? Who knows?
I don't know. That's I mentioned this the other day.
Mark Alprin in his newsletter to kick off the year
on January first, said, you know the story of our
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times and whether or not we can overcome it, I
do not know. Is we are also dug in on
our partisan beliefs and unwilling to give an inch that
can anything be solved or done? Ever? I don't know.
And I don't know either. And does this change when
Trump leaves the scene? I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, yeah, you want to circ a super uncomfortable example.
On the other side, all the people in the last
couple of days on the right Sayinganuary six was a
peaceful protest, it was fine.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Ridiculous, that's absolutely ridiculous. And Trump pardoning those people. I
thought it was horrible.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I can give you the tweets of Trump's cabinet and
his family on January the sixth when it happened.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
They're all horrified. You know, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We still have the same opinion we did on January
sixth and seventh. Oh yeah, that we you know now,
you know if that appeals to you, grade if it doesn't, goodbye, godspeed.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And I wish you a long and happy life. No,
that's the way we were all around here. That was
a dark, dark day and an awful, awful thing. And
Trump handled it. But I don't know if you could
have handled it more poorly than handled it.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And if you're smashing cops in the face with flagpole,
you are not a friend of mine, and you never
will be unless you dropped your knees and weep with
shame and beg to be forgiven.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That was horrible and it was anti American.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And if you're claiming otherwise, I suggest you take a
long look at yourself.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And Thank god, Kamala Harris isn't president right now? Are
you capable of having all those thoughts happen at the
same time? Right?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
What America really decided to continue on this point? It's
not that January sixth was fine. Only a very few
vocal people think that they thought it sucked.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But we've got a binary choice and the chicks as
dumb as a dog. She can't be presidents on that.
And Trump's got a lot of great policies. He's a
tough guy, and we only have two real choices, So
Trump it is. That's reality. Oh Man, dumb as a dog,
that's a criticism. Well it spineless as a jellyfish, a
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sort of jelly dog. It's disgusting. Let's stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
The new quarter is out celebrating the United States two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
This year, the.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
US Mint has rolled out the Mayflower Compact Quarter. It
features two Pilgrims on the front and the Mayflower ship
on the back.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Four more quarters on the way this year.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Marking the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,
and the Gettysburg Address.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I'm looking forward to all of the founding stuff, history
stuff that's gonna happen this year. Anniversaries and everything like
that gonna be good. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm weirdly looking forward to some of the backlash against
it too, because I am ready to go.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Let's get it all. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it'll be
good to have that argument. So I did. Over vacation,
I did what I do every single year. We call
it cousin Christmas. It was used to be little kids
getting together and running around in open presence. Now everybody's
practically a grown up. My kids are the youngest with
the extended family getting together in Wichita, Kansas, and I
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was looking for something that we could all do at
our current ages. You know, to kill some time is wrong,
but spend some time there, you go, spend some time.
So I suggested bowling. So we all went bowling. Everybody
went bowling. The only people didn't bowl my mom and dad.
They are eighty eight and eighty two. They're not bowling,
but they did go and watch us all bowl and
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everybody else, and it was pretty fun. Various levels of
athleticism and inflexibility and you know, and just ability to bowl.
But I quoted you many times, probably somewhat inaccurately, But
the gist I think I got right is that ten
year old, twenty eight year old and forty eight year
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old you bowling would tie every time. That's correct.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I've never gotten any better at bowling, even a brief
period of my life when I tried.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, I know so, And it's just it's golf can
be like this, playing pool. A lot of games can
be like this if you don't do them regularly. Is
you do good for a little bit and you start
to think, you know what I should I should get
into this. That'd be kind of fun because I won
the first round with the like ten of us playing,
and I beat everybody. You're a stud. You're strutting a
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little bit, maybe talking some trash. Oh yeah, and I
had I think that had three strikes in a row
at one point or something like that. It still had
a paltry score at the end. But but it's hilarious.
My son did the same thing, having a little streak
where he was doing. Oh you know, there are bowling
teams for kids, and that could I get a pass
at the local bowling place and I could go whenever
I want. It's funny how it hooks you like.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Longtime listeners know this story. God is my witness. This
is true. Let Rich the bass player from the Dead
Flowers be my witness along with God. We bowled three
games and he's a hardcore bowler. I rolled in ninety seven,
a two twenty one, in a ninety three.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Jack Jeff's my brother's girlfriend was there bowling, and she's
bad like the rest of us. And she said one time,
for whatever reason, she's throwing all strikes. And it ended
up at the end when it looked like she might
get a three hundred game. The whole bowling alley was
gathered around her watching. Everybody stopped everything to watch her
throw like four gutter balls to finish or what. Oh
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my god, Thank god nobody was aware of what I
was doing. I would have thrown it into the next down.
That would be horrible. Lane, tell everybody, look, this is
just some sort of weird fluke. I mean, it's going
to your games. Go back to the bar. There's nothing
to see here. I think I throw a I think
I threw a one twenty eight, and the the next
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game like a ninety four or something like that, and
then I was back to thinking, yeah, I'll do this
again in ten years when there's nothing else to do.
You guys want our favorite bowling clip. Yes, I brought
this up, and most of my family had never heard
of it. When a professional both wins a match throws
a strike to finally win it. This is a great one,
a strike to claim it.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Are you.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Who think you are? That's right? I did it? Whoever
you think you are, I am right? Words still, remember
that's what I said. But here's what I thought about.
With bowling. People often talk about the rental shoes and
how gross that is, and what's that spray that they
spray in there? And whatever the disgusting thing is the
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bowling balls. What's going on down in those holes where
everybody puts their wet, dirty fingers? What festers in there?
Plus war with Greenland, we'll talk about it. Man, Is
there a more interesting story than RFK Junior and the
whole health thing and all that sort of stuff? I
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mean it really the whole trajectory of it, you know,
Trump considering him a nut job, but needing that chunk
of people who believed in him, and just the whole thing,
and then the very stuff that he's so incredibly right about,
and then the various stuff that he's so incredibly wrong about.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I think he's a crackpot on a lot of stuff.
Here's my take on RFK. He's right about some stuff, definitely,
and the medical establishment has very little credibility in the
way co COVID. On the other hand, what if I
were to offer you this just you know, use specifically
Jack or anybody listening.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You got to leave your field, your career for a
couple of years max. A couple of years max.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Then when you come back to it, it'll be way
easier and way more profitable.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You would think, Wow, I'm you know, I got plenty
of years left in me. Yeah, what is this deal exactly?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
RFK Junior is a not an ambulance chaser. He's a
lawsuit chaser. He's made his living suing companies, par pharmaceutical companies,
medical companies, and he's getting inside the administration changing laws
to make that easier so he and his cronies can
make more money. He also happens to be right about
some stuff, But I don't know. Whatever I give up,
I'm not going to argue that point I have. I
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have a crusades. I feel like we can win and
that one will correct itself at some point, and how
much of the I'll get to RFK junior. And they
announced the new food guidelines dietary guidelines, and I'll get
to that in a second. But so we've got the
worst flu situation in twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, it's been a lot. It's been decades since the
flu has been this bad, the superflu and everything like that.
Now they're putting that on the percentage of people that
have gotten the flu shot, which is way down from
previous years. It's been trending down for the last four
or five years. I think because of the whole vaccine controversy.
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Why the COVID vaccine, which they lied to us about
all kinds of things, turned into also childhood vaccines and
now the flu vaccine the same way. I'm not exactly sure,
but it has How much of that is got to
do with the flu spread because every once in a
while you get a bad flu, sure, yeah right, yeah,
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know either,
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But the percentage of people who got the flu shot
this year is way way down from previous years.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I'm gonna I'm actually gonna do a little AI inquiry
while you're talking. I am paying attention, but this could
be interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So the Trump administration, particularly RFK Junior, released the new
dietary guidelines today for Americans. They do this every five years.
They updated every five years. It has been basically the
same since the eighties, by the way, but it's the
current one that they put out. Is to limit highly
processed foods, such as those high in sugar and sodium.
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Nobody would argue with that, and that endorsed products that
had once been discouraged by nutritionists, such as whole milk, butter,
and red meat. That will be very controversial. All day long.
You'll hear all kinds of stuff from unfortunately probably from partisans,
people that would have hated what RFK Junior said, no
matter what it was, along with people who would have
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backed what RFK Junior said, no matter what it was.
That's what's so frustrating to me. I want to hear
from people who just break it down based on the knowledge,
not on whether or not they're fort Trumper against Trump.
But anyway, the recommendations out today emphasize eating whole foods
such as fruits and vegetables in their original forms. Can't
argue with that. Food's rich in protein and whole grains.
They call for avoiding packaged, prepared or other ready to
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eat foods that are salty and sweet, such as many chips, candies,
and cookies. There's no arguing that it's there. They're easy,
they're cheap, they stay in your cupboard for a month
and they'll still be fine, and you finally open them,
and there's all kinds of advantages to them. But man,
I shouldn't ever eat them ever again. You know, this
is the worst thing that happened to me over the holidays.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And those of you, who like lost a loved wunner
were in a car record probably gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Hate me for saying this.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I discovered the best potato chips that have ever been
produced by the hand of man.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I need to know this. Oh, I mean, I love
potato chips. I love potato. There are times in my
life where my dinner was a bag of potato chips.
I've done that as a single man. When I was younger,
big bag of lace potato chips. That's what I had
for dinner. And Judy and I were both struggling with
our weight. No, we need to lose some which is
we got to we got to get through the bags
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that we It's not a lot. You could give them
to the downtrodden.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Shut up, and then then we will reforms.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
No, why would you tell us what what? I'm not
gonna do. No.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Number one, I'm ashamed. And when they're gone, they're gone.
Number two, that's what we do for a living. And
I'm not being paid. In three, I don't know if
you can get them where you are? Okay, it's it's
a niche brand. It's like it's a microchip. If you will, Jack,
you're some sort of fancy bespoke potato chip person. That's
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exactly right. Yes, put lays in front of me. I
will turn on my heel and leave.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Wow. Okay, yes, k do you have a chip? Thought?
I just think you can find anything on Amazon. And
you're being a gatekeeper, that's all. Yeah, you're a gatekeeper.
You're a denier. I'm pregnant and you're not telling me
about a type of chip that's delicious. What is wrong
with you? I will tell you privately. It will be
our secret. Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
This is so, and thereby thereby raising slightly the chance
that your new baby will be named Joe.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
So. So, here's my AI search that I did.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I asked, how well does the keep in mind this
could be completely made up. The answer, excuse me, how
well does the current flu shot matchup with strains that
are going around for the current twenty twenty five twenty
twenty six flu season, followed of course by the flu playoffs.
The match between the vaccine and the circulating strains is
a bit of a mixed bag. Well, the vaccine is
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a great match for two of three of the main viruses.
A new variant of H three and two has created
some challenges. Oh, it's all about subclade K Jack, That's
what I was afraid of.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
The news report I saw this morning is the big superflu,
the latest variant superflu the vaccine does not match up
with very well. Yeah, I think you're talking about the
H three N two sub played K of course, which
has become the dominant strain US in Europe because the
mismatch with that. The early data suggests the vaccine is
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roughly thirty to forty percent effective at preventing hospitalizations and adults.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
While that's lower than some years, that's pretty typical for
years when H three and two dominates thirty to forty
percent effective at preventing hospitalization in adults.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I'm not
good at being an adult. I never get the flu
shop shot, I've never ended up in the hospital, so
I don't know. I'll probably just keep doing what I've
been doing until I'm dead. You do what you want
to do under the new guidelines from the FDA just announced.
We're not supposed to eat those chips that Joe mentioned
or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Venmo me ten dollars, I'll email you the name. But
looking out for number one baby. That's hilarryous. Looking for
a side hustle. I think I found it.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Shop broker. This is where it's going to get controversial, though.
He said stay away from a sugar sweetened beverages, so
does for drinks and energy drinks. Obs like my son
is enter the energy drinks. I'm more worried about the
fake sugar than the caffeine. That fake sugar is supposed
to be horrible for you. I agree. I'm not a
health not look at me, but I agree.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Everything I've read suggests that the fake sweeteners are no
worse for you or no better for you than sugar.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Just you shouldn't take a lot of that stuff in
We're not made to. But under the guidelines, Americans should
eat three servings of dairy products a day that include
full fat without added sugar. That's a shift from decades
of saying eaten to take drink skim or low fat
options of milk as opposed to the whole milk. I'm
a whole milk guy, so I can just keep doing
what I've been doing the whole time. I drink whole
milk with my cereal or whatever. But that's what the
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new guidelines are. They also should eat ample protein from
animal and plant sources, including red meats that nutritionists had
long told Americans to limit limit amount of sugar. I
need to know, I mean red meat.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Really, is there a rationale for that or scientific data
they can share?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That seems really counterintuitive to me. Well, the Washington Post
breakdown this all just came out, does not have an
argument for why the red meat. I'm sure we'll hear
it throughout the day. Rfk Jr. Speaking as we are
on the air right now, So maybe he's making the
argument right now. But I love red meat, and maybe
I'm a bad person. I'm gonna eat whatever the hell
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I want to eat. Regardless of what this is, it's
gonna have zero effect on me. So I'll engrave that
on your gravestone. I want the beef. That's fine, you
can put on my stone. He ignored rfk JR he
ate red meat, or followed rfk JR. But I like
red meat, and I eat a fair amount of it,
and I stop eating it when i'm full lots. That's
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pretty much the way I Then.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
A heck of a lot of the people we're talking to,
like us, grew up with the food pyramid that said
eat lots of carbs, carbs all day, be very careful,
don't take in protein.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It's dangerous for you. Just carve out baby. Yeah, it
is kind of interesting that he's decided whole fat, dairy
products and red meat are a good idea. I would
like to hear the argument for a while. I'm busily
getting into selling stints when he's out of office. I'm
probably not gonna change what I eat for better or worse,
but I am interested in why he's made the change.
(27:22):
But the ultar processed food saying, that's the thing we
all got to get on board with. I've got to
get on board with I'm trying. Actually, if it comes
in a plastic sack and it's something that will keep
for fifty.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Years and has ingredients you've never heard of and would
never have it in your kitchen, don't eat it.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I am following that rule that you've talked about a
lot lately. If it's got a long list, I don't
eat it. If the list is like two things or
three things that I eat it.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, you know what, dang it, I've got this one
kind of protein bar that I got to talk.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
To Judy and tell her don't get it anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
It's got plenty of vegetable glycerine in it if you're
looking for that.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You ever had vegetable glitte through in in your uh
your cupboard? No, of course not. Well, all right, it's
it is kind of interesting that that even happened little
by little. I'm sure when did they start putting the
ingredients on packages. Did they even have them on the
air on the one when we were kids, I'm not
sure they did.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
No, no, no, I can't remember when that was, but
I remember it vaguely happened.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So that's probably the only reason it ever even got
started because if you had has started way back when
we're you know, more people were on the farm or
whatever and eaten you know, red meat and eggs and
butter and all that sort of stuff, and then you
started giving them things that the ingredients listed on there
were like, what the hell is this? I don't think
people would have eaten it? No.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
No, it came about through uh, you know, urbanization and
the incredible expense of fresh food being introduced into those
urban centers in numbers big enough for everybody to eat them.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's just incredibly expensive. And so if you have something
that can be.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Preserved and maintains its shape and it's look and it's
haste and everything over an extended period just makes a
lot more sense economically speaking.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Turns out it'll kill you. But so what is it
you had coming up? Will we be at war with Greenland?
By and right right? Yes? No, well with Denmark, I
guess over Greenland. Yeah. I took in a lot of
info on this yesterday. I do think we are going
to end up with using my finger quotes Greenland. It's
not gonna be a state or whatever, but we're gonna
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we're gonna have our way with Greenland.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I think whatever it costs ow that's a very romantic
sexual framing of the issue.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
There, we're gonna be with Greenland. We're gonna have our
way with Greenland. Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I make sure you with ants around ankles with Greenland.
I mean this disturbing. But we'll have some geopolitical analysis
for you, Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
That's coming up next.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
This has been a huge flashpoint. Taking over Greenland is
certainly an idea We've heard President Trump float before, but
especially so in recent day and now the White House
is refusing to rule out using the military to accomplish
that goal, so taking it.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
A step even further.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt did emphasize that in
a new statement, saying, quote, acquiring Greenland is a national
security priority of the United States, also adding quote, utilizing
the US military is always an option.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
It's a national security it's a worldwide security move. It's
good for the whole world. Well, not the world that
includes Russia, China and Iran, but all the rest of
the free world. It's a good thing. If we're heavily,
heavily involved with Greenland, there's zero chance we're gonna take
it militarily. I don't know why he pretends that's an option.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yeah, and as we discussed yesterday, I just I hate
that aspect of Trump's negotiating style.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You're talking about a friend here. Now.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Granted the Euros can be in transigent, lazy and useless
at times, but Denmark's a friend. You don't walk in
and say I'm going to beat the crap out of
you unless you give me a coke.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Because then they're perfectly inclined.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
To maybe give you a coke, sell you a coke,
talk about giving you a coke, but.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Now they're like, no, no, you'll get no cokes here,
get out. Did you see them? Mastep Just don't make
it hostile unless you need to make it hostile. Did
you see the map? I tweeted out yesterday, A good
view from the top of the globe, as opposed to
the way we usually look at the map. You look
at the top of the globe and see where Greenland is.
It's pretty important that we have greenland.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Oh yeah, I'm not sure I didn't see it. But
did that include the critical Arctic roots from yes? And yeah,
oh yeah, it's so important, incredibly important. But anyway, putting
aside the idea of invasion, invading, invading Greenland, I guess,
and then when Denmark came to take it back, we
would beat the hell out of them.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well, just to humor that idea for a little bit,
since what's his name over the weekend, Steven Miller put
it out. Yeah, yeah, I think Stephen Miller is right.
I think if we landed Marines on Greenland, I don't
think they would fight us, and I don't think NATO
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would say Article five invoked and fight us either. I
think everybody would be like, oh, come on, you can't
do this. It would work. Yeah, you know, it was funny,
very bad politically though international Marco Rubio so often the
good cop to Trump's bad cop is we've got a
statement which we're about to play for you.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But Stephen Miller is the little scene insane cop in
that cinera. Well, no, he's not insane. He is just
absolutely unfiltered, pure Maga. He is the id of the
Maga White House. And I get how a guy like
him is necessary. It's a little over the top. There's
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no reason to get in the face of the Denmarkians
also known as the Danes unnecessarily, as I said, But
here's here's Marco ended up for what's probably gonna happen
in fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Michael, can you clarify your comments why Greenland? Does the
US intend to buy Greenland? Can you clarify your comments
to lawmakers this week?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Well, that's always been the president's intent from the very beginning.
He said it very early on. I mean, this is
not new. He talked about it in his first term,
and he's not the first US president that is examined.
They're looked at, how could we acquire Greenland? There's an
interest there, But so I just reminded them of the
fact that not only did Truman want to do it,
but President Trump's been talking about this since his first term.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So Marco is making it clear we want to buy
Greenland and not not invaded. We could throw so much
money at the Danes that they'd say, we'd be nuts
not to sell Greenland. Yeah, yeah, And then I don't
know why the people of Greenland would be upset with that.
There's nothing. You'd be very happy being under the protection
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of the United States. As the people in walm how
they feel about it, They're happy.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
I haven't talked to any Guamians lately, But yeah, I
don't know. I think they again, they resent being used
as a pawn and being told what their fate is
going to be. They think they should have self determination.
There are towns that don't even have their own police
force bigger than the entire population of Greenland. So it's
(34:22):
all kind of cute when you talk about the incredible
geopolitical importance of it. One more Rubio fifty nine b Michael, guys.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
But I think the White House said yesterday is what
I will tell you now. And I've always said the
president always retained the option if he Every president, not
this president, every president always retains the option.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'm not talking about Greenland. I'm just talking about globally.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
If the president identifies a threat to the national security
of the United States, every president retains the option to
address it through military means. As a diplomat, which is
what I am now and what we work on, we
always prefer to settle it in different ways. That included
in Venezuela. We tried repeatedly to reach an outcome here
that did not involve having to go in and grab
an indicted drug trafficker.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Those were unsuccessful, Unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
You know, he makes an excellent point about the ridiculousness of.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Will you rule out military action?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well maybe unless stuff happens that causes it to be necessary,
then we'll rule.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
It back in again. Yeah, what is the hamdkick? You'll
find out in our four. If you get the podcast
Armstrong and Getty on demand, subscribe Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Gatty and he Armstrong and Eddy. Hi, everybody. It
(00:24):
was a year ago today that one of the most
expensive natural disasters in US history started.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
January seventh, twenty twenty five, ten thirty am.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The smoke and the ash is so thick you can't
even see. Everything is on fire.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Fire breaks out in the Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh No.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hours later, another ignites in Altadena under a transmission tower.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
This man nearly.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Catches fire trying to save someone inside. Thirty one killed,
twelve thousand homes, destroyed, you.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Right here that we built here to just be gone
in ours. It's just an awful feeling to lose everything
that you've had all those years. Twelve thousand homes. And
I remember texting with the friends in both of those
locations who were fleeing for their lives at the time.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, unbelievable loss, but we will rebuild maybe someday.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Despite no rain for eight months and a dire weather forecast,
Mayor Karen Bass leaves the country. The water department drained
a major reservoir above the Palisades for a maintenance project.
Firefighters are literally using the garden hose to fill up
their truck, and the fire chief, despite claims to the contrary.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
We pre deployed the resources in very, very calculated ways
throughout the city.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Staffed and pre deployed just three of more than forty
available engines, while seventy five more set idle in the mat.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
There were so many places still standing on the eighth
and no fire trucks to put them out.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Sue Pasco lost her home in the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's been a whole year of cover ups. Wow, oh yeah,
where to even start with it. We don't do a
good job, I guess because we're so comfortable and safe
in this country, we really don't do a good job
of holding I can't say people's feet to the fire
in this story, holding people accountable when screw ups happen,
(02:34):
we just don't. Part of it is our attention span
we move on to the next thing. Part of it
is just an ingrained uh you know, whichever side it
is politically, their side, rallies round them until you can
until everybody's attention span moves on to the next thing.
Or something, but we don't do a good job of
(02:56):
holding people accountable for failures of the state. Right right.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You mentioned one aspect of this in which the priorities
are upside down, and that's bureaucracy. To protect bureaucracies and
not people from being burned to death and their.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Houses burning down.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Now the other thing is in this is a bit
of a tangent, but I'm distracted. I'm absolutely sure there
are some great female firefighters in the world, but this
is California we're talking about, and of course the fire
chief is a woman.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Of course, of the very pretty.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Small percentage of firefighters in the world and cops in
the world, it seems in your big blue cities it
is always a woman, and if possible, a woman of
color who heads up the department, never mind whether they're
an ass kicking administrator who won't take no for an
answer and protects the people, because that's their job.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Now it's a DEI.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Hire And to those one hundred percent qualified women in
those I apologize, But that's the perception.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That forms when you have DEI. Of course it does.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Anyway, back to the main thread of the thing. William
Lauginess for Fox News goes on.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So the cover ups that she is referring to, among
other things, is number one, the fire that ignited the
Palisades fire. They never put it out. They didn't use
bulldozers because they were worried about an endangered plant. They
pulled up hoses while the fire was still smoldering. But
most importantly, there was this after action report. They have
now admitted. The city admitted that they watered it down.
(04:36):
They changed critical elements of it that were critical of
the agency to save people at the top from embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How do you like that, Well, you either put up
with that or you don't. Voters and people put up
with that if it's their party.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You've almost got to have an independent, private commission get
to the bottom of it, and the bureaucrats get zero
zero right to addit the reports, or just have a
private organization run your fire department and if they suck
you fire them.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And even if you could put together this commission, independent
commission and they really laid out the truth, do you
think people would vote differently and you'd end up with
a different crew in charge, or would they say I
hate Trump, I'm gonna continue to vote Temocrat. Things have
to get really really stupid. Is that what you're implying. Well,
voters are partisan, man, and it takes a lot to
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get them to change. I use San Francisco as an example.
I spent a couple of nights there before Christmas, my
son's birthday. We stayed at the nice hotel there in
Union Square, and it's fantastic. It's like San Francisco used
to be. A lot of the stores aren't there anymore.
But I didn't see a single homeless person. I mean,
but that city had to get so bad before voters
(05:54):
were willing to try something different. I mean it. It
was ridiculous how far it had to go before voters
were willing to try something different. And then the something
different was able to improve things very quickly with some
more reasonable policies, because policy does matter. But I don't
know how bad things would have to get in LA
before they'd be willing to try something different.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I'm curious to hear this as well. This is Rick
Caruso and somebody else on CNN's The Story is talking
about the same story.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
This fire we know now was completely preventable.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Just think about that now.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Some of us were talking about that months and months
and months ago, and we were sort of looked at like, no,
it was the wind. You couldn't have stopped it. The
Elm fire on January one was never.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Put out right sore was there was? For people that
don't fillow this that closely. There was a smaller fire
that happened on January first. Some firefighters said we need
to stay behind, and we're worried about the hotspot if
they were pulled away from that pulled abandoned site. There
was no pre deployment to the Pacific Palisades when in
the forecast was eighty to one hundred miles and out wins.
Fire explodes in Pacific Palisades. There's no firefighters there. Eventually
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the firefighters get there and eventually they run out of water.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And then, as I interjected in the middle of it,
the moment this happened, Gavin Newsom was on TV saying
this was climate change.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't know what else to say. No either, it's
just it's depressing.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Uh yeah, yeah it is. I'm depressed. That's your evidence.
It's depressing.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I think a lot of it might come down to
our current partisan situation where just nobody gives an inch
of on their side. Ever, So if your side to
something that's demonstrably awful, uh, you's still you're still not
going to go. You know, you're not going to be
(07:46):
one of those people. Right.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, you feel like you're in a never ending war
against the evil doers on the other side, So there's
no time for a court martial during war of somebody
on your side who's plainly a baddie. So you just
let it go till later. But later never comes because
you're always at war. And it's worth pointing out. Look,
there's a lot of money in always being at war.
(08:08):
Most of talk radio stokes it as hard as they can,
and most of politics does because there's so much.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Money to be made at it.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
People don't donate a fraction of what they do when
you convince them the other side are going to ruin
the country and their evil doers, which in some cases
I actually believe, but in some cases not true.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And this is a perfect example.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We need fire services in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles
area and your area to my friends, wherever you happen
to be, that serves the people and is not a fat,
rich bureaucracy that protects itself life and death is at
stake here?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Can we all agree on that?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And if the answer is, well, that means getting rid
of excuse me a Democrat. The answer is no, we
can't agree on that. I'm going to keep voting, or
I'm going to pretend that the those Democrats weren't horrifically
incompetent because I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Always at war even when there's no war to be fought.
Government waste is your favorite example. Why aren't Democrats who
want like extensive social programs, help for the meddal ill
drug counseling, whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Why aren't you anti government waste? Why you want to
spend the money to do good stuff?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Right the whole Minnesota thing where it turns out a
lot of those billions of dollars were specifically autism programs.
That was the easiest way to rip off the taxpayer
was to claim you were doing some sort of autism
school or something to steal the money and nobody paying attention. God,
those of you who care about kids and autism, you
should want them, no matter what their political party is,
(09:45):
to end up in jail. Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.
You want to be no war adamant or as adamant
than conservatives yes, you should be more adamant than conservatives,
because in many cases conservatives don't like some of these programs.
They think there are a waste of money or not
state government or federal government's job, or whatever this situation is.
But you'll immediately go with Trump is trying to turn
(10:07):
the You know, he's racist. It's because Somali's in racism.
It's not because people were stealing money from autistic kids
by the billions. Don't turn it into a Trump thing.
And the same thing with the fire right right very frustrated.
Oh is there any bouncing back from this? Who knows?
I don't know. That's I mentioned this the other day.
Mark Alprin in his newsletter to kick off the year
on January first, said, you know the story of our
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times and whether or not we can overcome it, I
do not know. Is we are also dug in on
our partisan beliefs and unwilling to give an inch that
can anything be solved or done? Ever? I don't know.
And I don't know either. And does this change when
Trump leaves the scene? I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, yeah, you want to circ a super uncomfortable example.
On the other side, all the people in the last
couple of days on the right Sayinganuary six was a
peaceful protest, it was fine.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Ridiculous, that's absolutely ridiculous. And Trump pardoning those people. I
thought it was horrible.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I can give you the tweets of Trump's cabinet and
his family on January the sixth when it happened.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
They're all horrified. You know, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We still have the same opinion we did on January
sixth and seventh. Oh yeah, that we you know now,
you know if that appeals to you, grade if it doesn't, goodbye, godspeed.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And I wish you a long and happy life. No,
that's the way we were all around here. That was
a dark, dark day and an awful, awful thing. And
Trump handled it. But I don't know if you could
have handled it more poorly than handled it.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And if you're smashing cops in the face with flagpole,
you are not a friend of mine, and you never
will be unless you dropped your knees and weep with
shame and beg to be forgiven.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That was horrible and it was anti American.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And if you're claiming otherwise, I suggest you take a
long look at yourself.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And Thank god, Kamala Harris isn't president right now? Are
you capable of having all those thoughts happen at the
same time? Right?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
What America really decided to continue on this point? It's
not that January sixth was fine. Only a very few
vocal people think that they thought it sucked.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But we've got a binary choice and the chicks as
dumb as a dog. She can't be presidents on that.
And Trump's got a lot of great policies. He's a
tough guy, and we only have two real choices, So
Trump it is. That's reality. Oh Man, dumb as a dog,
that's a criticism. Well it spineless as a jellyfish, a
(12:32):
sort of jelly dog. It's disgusting. Let's stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
The new quarter is out celebrating the United States two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
This year, the.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
US Mint has rolled out the Mayflower Compact Quarter. It
features two Pilgrims on the front and the Mayflower ship
on the back.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Four more quarters on the way this year.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Marking the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,
and the Gettysburg Address.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I'm looking forward to all of the founding stuff, history
stuff that's gonna happen this year. Anniversaries and everything like
that gonna be good. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm weirdly looking forward to some of the backlash against
it too, because I am ready to go.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Let's get it all. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it'll be
good to have that argument. So I did. Over vacation,
I did what I do every single year. We call
it cousin Christmas. It was used to be little kids
getting together and running around in open presence. Now everybody's
practically a grown up. My kids are the youngest with
the extended family getting together in Wichita, Kansas, and I
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was looking for something that we could all do at
our current ages. You know, to kill some time is wrong,
but spend some time there, you go, spend some time.
So I suggested bowling. So we all went bowling. Everybody
went bowling. The only people didn't bowl my mom and dad.
They are eighty eight and eighty two. They're not bowling,
but they did go and watch us all bowl and
(13:58):
everybody else, and it was pretty fun. Various levels of
athleticism and inflexibility and you know, and just ability to bowl.
But I quoted you many times, probably somewhat inaccurately, But
the gist I think I got right is that ten
year old, twenty eight year old and forty eight year
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old you bowling would tie every time. That's correct.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I've never gotten any better at bowling, even a brief
period of my life when I tried.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, I know so, And it's just it's golf can
be like this, playing pool. A lot of games can
be like this if you don't do them regularly. Is
you do good for a little bit and you start
to think, you know what I should I should get
into this. That'd be kind of fun because I won
the first round with the like ten of us playing,
and I beat everybody. You're a stud. You're strutting a
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little bit, maybe talking some trash. Oh yeah, and I
had I think that had three strikes in a row
at one point or something like that. It still had
a paltry score at the end. But but it's hilarious.
My son did the same thing, having a little streak
where he was doing. Oh you know, there are bowling
teams for kids, and that could I get a pass
at the local bowling place and I could go whenever
I want. It's funny how it hooks you like.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Longtime listeners know this story. God is my witness. This
is true. Let Rich the bass player from the Dead
Flowers be my witness along with God. We bowled three
games and he's a hardcore bowler. I rolled in ninety seven,
a two twenty one, in a ninety three.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Jack Jeff's my brother's girlfriend was there bowling, and she's
bad like the rest of us. And she said one time,
for whatever reason, she's throwing all strikes. And it ended
up at the end when it looked like she might
get a three hundred game. The whole bowling alley was
gathered around her watching. Everybody stopped everything to watch her
throw like four gutter balls to finish or what. Oh
(15:55):
my god, Thank god nobody was aware of what I
was doing. I would have thrown it into the next down.
That would be horrible. Lane, tell everybody, look, this is
just some sort of weird fluke. I mean, it's going
to your games. Go back to the bar. There's nothing
to see here. I think I throw a I think
I threw a one twenty eight, and the the next
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game like a ninety four or something like that, and
then I was back to thinking, yeah, I'll do this
again in ten years when there's nothing else to do.
You guys want our favorite bowling clip. Yes, I brought
this up, and most of my family had never heard
of it. When a professional both wins a match throws
a strike to finally win it. This is a great one,
a strike to claim it.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Are you.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Who think you are? That's right? I did it? Whoever
you think you are, I am right? Words still, remember
that's what I said. But here's what I thought about.
With bowling. People often talk about the rental shoes and
how gross that is, and what's that spray that they
spray in there? And whatever the disgusting thing is the
(17:06):
bowling balls. What's going on down in those holes where
everybody puts their wet, dirty fingers? What festers in there?
Plus war with Greenland, we'll talk about it. Man, Is
there a more interesting story than RFK Junior and the
whole health thing and all that sort of stuff? I
(17:27):
mean it really the whole trajectory of it, you know,
Trump considering him a nut job, but needing that chunk
of people who believed in him, and just the whole thing,
and then the very stuff that he's so incredibly right about,
and then the various stuff that he's so incredibly wrong about.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I think he's a crackpot on a lot of stuff.
Here's my take on RFK. He's right about some stuff, definitely,
and the medical establishment has very little credibility in the
way co COVID. On the other hand, what if I
were to offer you this just you know, use specifically
Jack or anybody listening.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You got to leave your field, your career for a
couple of years max. A couple of years max.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Then when you come back to it, it'll be way
easier and way more profitable.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You would think, Wow, I'm you know, I got plenty
of years left in me. Yeah, what is this deal exactly?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
RFK Junior is a not an ambulance chaser. He's a
lawsuit chaser. He's made his living suing companies, par pharmaceutical companies,
medical companies, and he's getting inside the administration changing laws
to make that easier so he and his cronies can
make more money. He also happens to be right about
some stuff, But I don't know. Whatever I give up,
I'm not going to argue that point I have. I
(18:42):
have a crusades. I feel like we can win and
that one will correct itself at some point, and how
much of the I'll get to RFK junior. And they
announced the new food guidelines dietary guidelines, and I'll get
to that in a second. But so we've got the
worst flu situation in twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, it's been a lot. It's been decades since the
flu has been this bad, the superflu and everything like that.
Now they're putting that on the percentage of people that
have gotten the flu shot, which is way down from
previous years. It's been trending down for the last four
or five years. I think because of the whole vaccine controversy.
(19:26):
Why the COVID vaccine, which they lied to us about
all kinds of things, turned into also childhood vaccines and
now the flu vaccine the same way. I'm not exactly sure,
but it has How much of that is got to
do with the flu spread because every once in a
while you get a bad flu, sure, yeah right, yeah,
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know either,
(19:47):
But the percentage of people who got the flu shot
this year is way way down from previous years.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I'm gonna I'm actually gonna do a little AI inquiry
while you're talking. I am paying attention, but this could
be interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So the Trump administration, particularly RFK Junior, released the new
dietary guidelines today for Americans. They do this every five years.
They updated every five years. It has been basically the
same since the eighties, by the way, but it's the
current one that they put out. Is to limit highly
processed foods, such as those high in sugar and sodium.
(20:20):
Nobody would argue with that, and that endorsed products that
had once been discouraged by nutritionists, such as whole milk, butter,
and red meat. That will be very controversial. All day long.
You'll hear all kinds of stuff from unfortunately probably from partisans,
people that would have hated what RFK Junior said, no
matter what it was, along with people who would have
(20:41):
backed what RFK Junior said, no matter what it was.
That's what's so frustrating to me. I want to hear
from people who just break it down based on the knowledge,
not on whether or not they're fort Trumper against Trump.
But anyway, the recommendations out today emphasize eating whole foods
such as fruits and vegetables in their original forms. Can't
argue with that. Food's rich in protein and whole grains.
They call for avoiding packaged, prepared or other ready to
(21:04):
eat foods that are salty and sweet, such as many chips, candies,
and cookies. There's no arguing that it's there. They're easy,
they're cheap, they stay in your cupboard for a month
and they'll still be fine, and you finally open them,
and there's all kinds of advantages to them. But man,
I shouldn't ever eat them ever again. You know, this
is the worst thing that happened to me over the holidays.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And those of you, who like lost a loved wunner
were in a car record probably gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Hate me for saying this.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I discovered the best potato chips that have ever been
produced by the hand of man.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I need to know this. Oh, I mean, I love
potato chips. I love potato. There are times in my
life where my dinner was a bag of potato chips.
I've done that as a single man. When I was younger,
big bag of lace potato chips. That's what I had
for dinner. And Judy and I were both struggling with
our weight. No, we need to lose some which is
we got to we got to get through the bags
(21:59):
that we It's not a lot. You could give them
to the downtrodden.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Shut up, and then then we will reforms.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
No, why would you tell us what what? I'm not
gonna do. No.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Number one, I'm ashamed. And when they're gone, they're gone.
Number two, that's what we do for a living. And
I'm not being paid. In three, I don't know if
you can get them where you are? Okay, it's it's
a niche brand. It's like it's a microchip. If you will, Jack,
you're some sort of fancy bespoke potato chip person. That's
(22:38):
exactly right. Yes, put lays in front of me. I
will turn on my heel and leave.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Wow. Okay, yes, k do you have a chip? Thought?
I just think you can find anything on Amazon. And
you're being a gatekeeper, that's all. Yeah, you're a gatekeeper.
You're a denier. I'm pregnant and you're not telling me
about a type of chip that's delicious. What is wrong
with you? I will tell you privately. It will be
our secret. Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
This is so, and thereby thereby raising slightly the chance
that your new baby will be named Joe.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
So. So, here's my AI search that I did.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I asked, how well does the keep in mind this
could be completely made up. The answer, excuse me, how
well does the current flu shot matchup with strains that
are going around for the current twenty twenty five twenty
twenty six flu season, followed of course by the flu playoffs.
The match between the vaccine and the circulating strains is
a bit of a mixed bag. Well, the vaccine is
(23:36):
a great match for two of three of the main viruses.
A new variant of H three and two has created
some challenges. Oh, it's all about subclade K Jack, That's
what I was afraid of.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
The news report I saw this morning is the big superflu,
the latest variant superflu the vaccine does not match up
with very well. Yeah, I think you're talking about the
H three N two sub played K of course, which
has become the dominant strain US in Europe because the
mismatch with that. The early data suggests the vaccine is
(24:08):
roughly thirty to forty percent effective at preventing hospitalizations and adults.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
While that's lower than some years, that's pretty typical for
years when H three and two dominates thirty to forty
percent effective at preventing hospitalization in adults.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I'm not
good at being an adult. I never get the flu
shop shot, I've never ended up in the hospital, so
I don't know. I'll probably just keep doing what I've
been doing until I'm dead. You do what you want
to do under the new guidelines from the FDA just announced.
We're not supposed to eat those chips that Joe mentioned
or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Venmo me ten dollars, I'll email you the name. But
looking out for number one baby. That's hilarryous. Looking for
a side hustle. I think I found it.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Shop broker. This is where it's going to get controversial, though.
He said stay away from a sugar sweetened beverages, so
does for drinks and energy drinks. Obs like my son
is enter the energy drinks. I'm more worried about the
fake sugar than the caffeine. That fake sugar is supposed
to be horrible for you. I agree. I'm not a
health not look at me, but I agree.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Everything I've read suggests that the fake sweeteners are no
worse for you or no better for you than sugar.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Just you shouldn't take a lot of that stuff in
We're not made to. But under the guidelines, Americans should
eat three servings of dairy products a day that include
full fat without added sugar. That's a shift from decades
of saying eaten to take drink skim or low fat
options of milk as opposed to the whole milk. I'm
a whole milk guy, so I can just keep doing
what I've been doing the whole time. I drink whole
milk with my cereal or whatever. But that's what the
(25:41):
new guidelines are. They also should eat ample protein from
animal and plant sources, including red meats that nutritionists had
long told Americans to limit limit amount of sugar. I
need to know, I mean red meat.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Really, is there a rationale for that or scientific data
they can share?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That seems really counterintuitive to me. Well, the Washington Post
breakdown this all just came out, does not have an
argument for why the red meat. I'm sure we'll hear
it throughout the day. Rfk Jr. Speaking as we are
on the air right now, So maybe he's making the
argument right now. But I love red meat, and maybe
I'm a bad person. I'm gonna eat whatever the hell
(26:26):
I want to eat. Regardless of what this is, it's
gonna have zero effect on me. So I'll engrave that
on your gravestone. I want the beef. That's fine, you
can put on my stone. He ignored rfk JR he
ate red meat, or followed rfk JR. But I like
red meat, and I eat a fair amount of it,
and I stop eating it when i'm full lots. That's
(26:48):
pretty much the way I Then.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
A heck of a lot of the people we're talking to,
like us, grew up with the food pyramid that said
eat lots of carbs, carbs all day, be very careful,
don't take in protein.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It's dangerous for you. Just carve out baby. Yeah, it
is kind of interesting that he's decided whole fat, dairy
products and red meat are a good idea. I would
like to hear the argument for a while. I'm busily
getting into selling stints when he's out of office. I'm
probably not gonna change what I eat for better or worse,
but I am interested in why he's made the change.
(27:22):
But the ultar processed food saying, that's the thing we
all got to get on board with. I've got to
get on board with I'm trying. Actually, if it comes
in a plastic sack and it's something that will keep
for fifty.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Years and has ingredients you've never heard of and would
never have it in your kitchen, don't eat it.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I am following that rule that you've talked about a
lot lately. If it's got a long list, I don't
eat it. If the list is like two things or
three things that I eat it.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, you know what, dang it, I've got this one
kind of protein bar that I got to talk.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
To Judy and tell her don't get it anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
It's got plenty of vegetable glycerine in it if you're
looking for that.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You ever had vegetable glitte through in in your uh
your cupboard? No, of course not. Well, all right, it's
it is kind of interesting that that even happened little
by little. I'm sure when did they start putting the
ingredients on packages. Did they even have them on the
air on the one when we were kids, I'm not
sure they did.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
No, no, no, I can't remember when that was, but
I remember it vaguely happened.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So that's probably the only reason it ever even got
started because if you had has started way back when
we're you know, more people were on the farm or
whatever and eaten you know, red meat and eggs and
butter and all that sort of stuff, and then you
started giving them things that the ingredients listed on there
were like, what the hell is this? I don't think
people would have eaten it? No.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
No, it came about through uh, you know, urbanization and
the incredible expense of fresh food being introduced into those
urban centers in numbers big enough for everybody to eat them.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's just incredibly expensive. And so if you have something
that can be.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Preserved and maintains its shape and it's look and it's
haste and everything over an extended period just makes a
lot more sense economically speaking.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Turns out it'll kill you. But so what is it
you had coming up? Will we be at war with Greenland?
By and right right? Yes? No, well with Denmark, I
guess over Greenland. Yeah. I took in a lot of
info on this yesterday. I do think we are going
to end up with using my finger quotes Greenland. It's
not gonna be a state or whatever, but we're gonna
(29:26):
we're gonna have our way with Greenland.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I think whatever it costs ow that's a very romantic
sexual framing of the issue.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
There, we're gonna be with Greenland. We're gonna have our
way with Greenland. Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I make sure you with ants around ankles with Greenland.
I mean this disturbing. But we'll have some geopolitical analysis
for you, Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
That's coming up next.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
This has been a huge flashpoint. Taking over Greenland is
certainly an idea We've heard President Trump float before, but
especially so in recent day and now the White House
is refusing to rule out using the military to accomplish
that goal, so taking it.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
A step even further.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt did emphasize that in
a new statement, saying, quote, acquiring Greenland is a national
security priority of the United States, also adding quote, utilizing
the US military is always an option.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
It's a national security it's a worldwide security move. It's
good for the whole world. Well, not the world that
includes Russia, China and Iran, but all the rest of
the free world. It's a good thing. If we're heavily,
heavily involved with Greenland, there's zero chance we're gonna take
it militarily. I don't know why he pretends that's an option.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yeah, and as we discussed yesterday, I just I hate
that aspect of Trump's negotiating style.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You're talking about a friend here. Now.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Granted the Euros can be in transigent, lazy and useless
at times, but Denmark's a friend. You don't walk in
and say I'm going to beat the crap out of
you unless you give me a coke.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Because then they're perfectly inclined.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
To maybe give you a coke, sell you a coke,
talk about giving you a coke, but.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Now they're like, no, no, you'll get no cokes here,
get out. Did you see them? Mastep Just don't make
it hostile unless you need to make it hostile. Did
you see the map? I tweeted out yesterday, A good
view from the top of the globe, as opposed to
the way we usually look at the map. You look
at the top of the globe and see where Greenland is.
It's pretty important that we have greenland.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Oh yeah, I'm not sure I didn't see it. But
did that include the critical Arctic roots from yes? And yeah,
oh yeah, it's so important, incredibly important. But anyway, putting
aside the idea of invasion, invading, invading Greenland, I guess,
and then when Denmark came to take it back, we
would beat the hell out of them.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well, just to humor that idea for a little bit,
since what's his name over the weekend, Steven Miller put
it out. Yeah, yeah, I think Stephen Miller is right.
I think if we landed Marines on Greenland, I don't
think they would fight us, and I don't think NATO
(32:09):
would say Article five invoked and fight us either. I
think everybody would be like, oh, come on, you can't
do this. It would work. Yeah, you know, it was funny,
very bad politically though international Marco Rubio so often the
good cop to Trump's bad cop is we've got a
statement which we're about to play for you.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But Stephen Miller is the little scene insane cop in
that cinera. Well, no, he's not insane. He is just
absolutely unfiltered, pure Maga. He is the id of the
Maga White House. And I get how a guy like
him is necessary. It's a little over the top. There's
(32:51):
no reason to get in the face of the Denmarkians
also known as the Danes unnecessarily, as I said, But
here's here's Marco ended up for what's probably gonna happen
in fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Michael, can you clarify your comments why Greenland? Does the
US intend to buy Greenland? Can you clarify your comments
to lawmakers this week?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Well, that's always been the president's intent from the very beginning.
He said it very early on. I mean, this is
not new. He talked about it in his first term,
and he's not the first US president that is examined.
They're looked at, how could we acquire Greenland? There's an
interest there, But so I just reminded them of the
fact that not only did Truman want to do it,
but President Trump's been talking about this since his first term.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So Marco is making it clear we want to buy
Greenland and not not invaded. We could throw so much
money at the Danes that they'd say, we'd be nuts
not to sell Greenland. Yeah, yeah, And then I don't
know why the people of Greenland would be upset with that.
There's nothing. You'd be very happy being under the protection
(33:55):
of the United States. As the people in walm how
they feel about it, They're happy.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
I haven't talked to any Guamians lately, But yeah, I
don't know. I think they again, they resent being used
as a pawn and being told what their fate is
going to be. They think they should have self determination.
There are towns that don't even have their own police
force bigger than the entire population of Greenland. So it's
(34:22):
all kind of cute when you talk about the incredible
geopolitical importance of it. One more Rubio fifty nine b Michael, guys.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
But I think the White House said yesterday is what
I will tell you now. And I've always said the
president always retained the option if he Every president, not
this president, every president always retains the option.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'm not talking about Greenland. I'm just talking about globally.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
If the president identifies a threat to the national security
of the United States, every president retains the option to
address it through military means. As a diplomat, which is
what I am now and what we work on, we
always prefer to settle it in different ways. That included
in Venezuela. We tried repeatedly to reach an outcome here
that did not involve having to go in and grab
an indicted drug trafficker.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Those were unsuccessful, Unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
You know, he makes an excellent point about the ridiculousness of.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Will you rule out military action?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well maybe unless stuff happens that causes it to be necessary,
then we'll rule.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
It back in again. Yeah, what is the hamdkick? You'll
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