October 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Disarming Hamas
- Marc Sanchez & the Trump/Biden golf argument
- The EPA climate hoax & the UN is going to tax us
- Katie Porter apologizes
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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 Getty and he are Strong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
After his groundbreaking trip to the Middle East, President Trump
with a warning to her Mass, saying they must disarm
as part of the next phase of his peace plan Israel,
accusing her Mass of violating this ceased five deal by
not releasing the remains of more hostages, threatening to cut
desperately needed aid into Gaza in retaliation.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So they gave the live hostages back. They're supposed Hamas
is supposed to give back all the deceased. Were they
passed away, what natural causes, the people that were murdered
or tortured to death or starved to death. They're supposed
to give those remains back. And they're like any two
bodies Hamas has not returned to Israel. They returned one
yesterday that turned out to be somebody else. Yeah. So
(01:07):
here's Trump in his own words, key on the word
we and wonder who we is here.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Well, they're going to disarm, and because they said they
were going to disarm, and if they don't disarm, we
will disarm them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
How you do that?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I don't have to explain that to you. But if
they don't disarm, we will disarm them. They know I'm
not playing games.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We have.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Told them we want disarmed, and they will disarm. And
if they don't disarm, we will disarm them, and it'll
happen quickly and perhaps violently. But they will disarm. Do
you understand me, because you always everyone says, oh, well,
they won't disarm, they will disarm. And I spoke to
Hamas and I said, you're going to disarm, right, Yes, sir,
(01:51):
we're going to disarm.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That's what they tell me.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
They will disarm or we will disarm them.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I should try that on my kids because it clearly
works for him, or he thinks it's important to repeat
your main message. Oh yeah, like fifteen times. I should
try that more often. Anyway, Who's we Hamas will either
disarm or we will disarm them, perhaps violently.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
The signatories to the treaty, the accord. I mean, what
he really means is Israel with US support.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Doesn't he? I assume?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, but it is not going to disarm willingly.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So it's like if I'm a Dodgers fan and I say,
we really looked good last night. I don't actually do anything.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's you and show Heo Tani right collectively wanted to.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Get this on. I actually I haven't heard this. This
is one of the freed Israeli hostages talking about if
Kamala had been elected. Well, this is back in February.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
He was released at his owner chef told and he's
talking about the fact that he was treated poorly by Hamas.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And then when Donald Trump was elected.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Much they were they want't uh.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We're afraid of Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They wanted Kaman to be.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Each other you talked to politics and that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They wanted Kamana to be an active when Trump came
into Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Uh, you're waiting to cheat at us, change.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
More food shot.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
That.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You know. That doesn't surprise me. Does it surprise you
that Amasa crap Trump got elected? Uh? Well, I mean
Kamala Harris was sending the message on a daily basis,
do whatever the hell you want. We're gonna lean on Israel.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Leave leave Amas alone, leave them in peace. Right. Yeah,
isn't that something that's you know, uh, put aside.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Your political theories and theorists and talking heads on cable TV.
That's real world proof of what you know we've been
saying for a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Speaking of putting away your political theory, I'll just touch
on this Tom Friedman in the New York Times. I
don't know if you read him, but he's one of
the most respected thinkers on the Middle East. I don't
always agree with him. He's a super lefty. He always
sides with Democrat ideas and hates Republicans for the most part.
So that's one of the reasons this is so interesting
what he has written today in the New York Times.
(04:25):
Mister Trump, on the Middle East, please move fast and
break things. And he writes Listening to President Trump telling
Israelis and Arabs on Monday that they were at the
historic dawn of a new Middle East was like watching
Trump selling his bankers on a plan to build the biggest,
most beautiful, most amazing hotel in the world on a
toxic waste dump. On the one hand, you tell yourself,
(04:45):
this man must be crazy. Doesn't he know the history
of this place. You can't build a hotel there. On
the other hand, a voice in the back of your
head whispers, what if he can bring it off. Trump's
ability to combine bullying, flattering and exaggeration is truly a
site to behold, and it was on full display Monday
and his address to the Israeli kanness It and then
to more of the twenty world leaders there. I will
(05:06):
give Trump this. No traditional diplomat on foreign policy or
foreign policy professor would have advised the president to take
such risks, to declare that we are on the road
to Middle East peace and that he Donald Trump will
chair the Board of Peace, then we'll deliver it. But
Trump went to business school, not the school of foreign service,
and he clearly believes that he can cajole, muscle, and
(05:28):
bluster this conflict to a happy ending. And I'm not
going to bet against him or for him, but I'll
give but I do think he can pull it off.
That's an amazing thing from somebody who hates Donald Trump
as much as Tom Friedman. This whole recognizing that ignoring
the rules of the past can work in your favor.
(05:51):
Obviously it wouldn't always work in your favor, but sometimes
it can. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I was thinking about.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Trump as the proverbial bull in the China Show. And
there are situations where the China shop. The China that
you're talking about is just the tired out, old expectations
and conventional wisdom we've.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Been talking about.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
It needs a bull because the China shop sucks. Nobody
wants the China, nobody buys it, and it just sits
there collecting dust. And his point about how Trump, you know,
presents a grand vision. In the case of the Middle
East and the various actors, the various heads of the
(06:32):
countries and diplomats, they are now put in a position
of either I go along with that grand vision or
I face Trump's cajoling, bullying and bombs. So it's a
beautiful example of that if you have an intractable problem,
make it bigger. And now they're all in the position
(06:52):
of this brave, beautiful new Middle East.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Am I on board or not?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I guess I'm on board talking about a big, beautiful,
brave Middle East. A couple of years ago, it was
the very narrow, just tired out two state solution. We
must work toward a t state solution, which is just
the worst sort of flip service to dissolving the problem.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's gonna be something to watch over the next well,
not even months or years, maybe hours and days at
least on this whole returning the bodies situation and the
disarming situation again, they will disarm or we will disarm them.
And he means now.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Right, I really want to get to the Hamas situation
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Speaker 5 (08:43):
So the situation in Gaza right now is crazy. So
they're at peace with Israel Hamas is, but instead of
laying down their arms and making clear that now is
the time for peace, Hamas is quickly real arming, trying
to take control of the streets, show that they're still
(09:03):
in charge, and they're rounding up anybody who's opposed them
now that these Israelis are out of the way, and
either exiling them or shooting them dead in the streets
in front of crowds.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well, they're claiming that they're having trials, oh yeah, and
finding them guilty right.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Of collaborating with the Israelis or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't know if you've seen some of the pictures
and videos, but they are horrific, horrific.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Clashes around a hospital in Gaza City on Sunday left
dozens dead, some peace according to the Hamas unit.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Videos emerge Monday, verified by various news organizations that show
Hamas fighters dragging a number of men from one family
into a public square in broad daylight, forcing them to kneel,
and executing them in front of onlookers.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, there are rival gangs that want to be the
people that run Gaza instead of Hamas. Been running it
for a long long time, and Hamas's the people that
are left are saying no, you ain't.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah, And it's interesting the stuff that Trump said right
before the quotes that we were just playing. He was
asked about Hamas's deployment of security forces and ongoing crackdowns
while he was on Air Force one. He said the
group had understandably asked to be allowed to secure the
devastated enclave. Quote, they've been open about it, and we
gave them approval for a period of time. But they're
(10:28):
going to disarm, and if they don't disarm, we will
disarm them. And that whole bit.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Have you heard this stat that people keep mentioning that
Hamas still has a tunnel system the size of the
New York City subway system.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Wow, that's I heard there are a bunch that remained,
but not that that's significant.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
That's crazy, incredible. Yeah, yeah, so there's one story.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
One early target of the Hamas guys was the dog
Moosh family dog Mosh in Gaza City, long history of friction.
This family backed the Fatah faction.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Of the PLO. You may remember those guys from back
in the day.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
On Sunday, masked Hamas fighters armed with kalishnikovs and pistols
showed up outside the Jordanian Hospital in Gaza City. A
number of Dogmash family members had taken shelter there during
an Israeli offensive.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Hamas ordered them to leave.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
They also demanded the family hand over ten members it
alleged had cooperated with Israel. They said they couldn't turn
over its sons. At the hospital gates, armed Hamas fighters
threatened to clear the hospital by force unless the family
members left immediately. When they refused, some of the gunmen
raised their weapons. One pointed a weapon, and a family
member threatened to bring the hospital.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Down on top of him if he didn't leave.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Another family member shot the Hamask guy dead, and that
killing sharply escalated the fighting. Hamas closed off access around
the hospital, besieged the neighborhood and open fire with machine.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Guns, rocket propelled grenades.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Just absolute craziness, dead ender Islamist, death cult, gang banging scum.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
This could be pretty exciting over the next several days
or one thousand years.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a good thing. Trump is a hard
ass and Bbe's a hard ass. We'll have to see
how hard ass the Gulf States are, because it is
one hundred percent gonna take hard assidness to get Gaza
turned around.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
One percent.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Hard ass. Katie Porter, remember her from last week? She
became a bit of a household name. I hadn't even
heard of her here in California.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Get out of my fing shot.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I don't have to answer to that. I'm calling this
ah and we got she tried to apologize yesterday, So
we'll get to that coming up in just a little bit.
I want to talk about that and what was the
other thing on to get to Oh geez, we're gonna
take a look back at what somebody called the high
point in US debac that I had forgotten about. This
(13:02):
is just like a throwback Wednesday sort of thing. Oh wow,
that I think you'll find entertaining, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has been accused of drunkenly assaulting
a delivery driver before the driver stabbed him. The penalties
offset for pete first down. If convicted, Sanchez could be
sent to prison or worse.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Back to the Jets. Those are decent jokes around a
horrifying story of a drunken, giant, ex NFL football player
who decided to beat up an old man, or beat
an old man to death is what he was going
to do until that old man, until that old man
pulled a knife. Did you see that Sanchez's ex wife
came out or X. I don't know if they ever married. X.
(13:50):
Baby mom you came out and said I'm not surprised
she had full custody of their kid because he's a
violent lunatic and said, I'm not surprised at all by
this so and degenerate drunk. Yeah, yeah, that's a rough story. So, boy,
this is apropos of nothing. I just I was scrolling
media and I came across this somebody who's calling this
(14:10):
the low point or peak moment of US democracy or whatever.
So we all remember the disastrous debate between Trump and Biden.
It changed the course of perhaps world history see the
Middle East currently. But we forget this part of it.
I mean, if you remember watching it, it degenerated into
this toward the end. This is not flattering for either
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one of them or for America as a whole.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I just won two club championships, not even senior, two
regular club championships. To do that, you have to be
quite smart, and you have to be able to hit
the ball a long way. And I do it. He
doesn't do it. He can't hit a ball fifty yards.
He challenged me to a golf match. He can't hit
a ball fifty years.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
He's happy to have a driving contest. Yet, Kareim, I
got my handicapped, which when I was vice president, down
to a six. By the way, I told you, I'm
happy to play golf. If you carry your own bag,
I think you can do it.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
That's the biggest line. When he's a six handicap of all,
I was an eight handicap.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah eight. Oh no, I've seen you swing.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
I know you swing.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It was worse than I remember. I know me too.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
That's why I wanted to play it, because we all
got I mean it drove the guy. It drove the
sitting president out of office. It is a world changing
I mean from the first moment, so we forgot that
happened at the end, but when they got in it,
and it goes on after that, when they got into
that long conversation of which eighty year old is the
best golfer? I mean it was like a couple of
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todder sitting around the clubhouse after too many beers, and
in that setting, it would be embarrassing. Yeah, you're right.
If it were kind of getting late at night at
the bar there at the golf course and you got
a couple of eighty year olds getting into it over
who's the best golfer, you'd think.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Is you were never a six?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
This is the general was this, Can you even carry
your bag? I don't think you're good.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I'll play an I'll play you anytime if you carry
your bag, think you can? Alright, fellas, we gotta talk
about Marthon else.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Uh, you didn't see the visual. But when Biden says,
and God does Biden sound one hundred and fifty years
old than.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
That, I was just gonna say that was the other
big impression was that it sounds like two old men
arguing about golf. Well, one of them is in his deathbed,
right right, Let me die in peace.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You have to attack my golfing here in the last
moments of my life.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Let my family in here stop yelling at me about golf.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But when Biden says I got my handicapped down to
a six, Trump rolls his eyes and makes his face
looks so funny, like he he is actually personally offended
by the fact that Biden claimed he had his six handicap.
That's what was on his mind during the presidential debate.
That guy's lying about his handicap. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Oh wow, low moment, definitely.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Anyway, speaking of bad politics, that simmering ball of angry hate,
Katie Porter of California attempting to apologize.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Oh that went well, we'll have that audio for you.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah. Yeah, I wonder how much she blew up her career.
We'll know soon enough. How many times does an apology
and I mean not in politics, just in any realm
not make things worse? I think only if you like
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apologize immediately and it's like out of your own mind,
as opposed to anytime somebody focus groups or talks to
you know, some handler or something like that. Whether it's
a corporation or whatever, it almost always makes a situation
worse right, fuel to the fire, for sure, almost always. Anyway,
we got that for you. A whole bunch of other
stuff on the way. If you miss the second, get
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Katy Perry, the pop music superstar Wars spotted smooching a
former Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. What a couple.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I've been wondering.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
How Canada was gonna exact their revenge for the.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Tariffs, and this is it. They're taking our women.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
They're not just taking our women, they're taking our astronauts.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That's a good jo and he's not an obnoxious political
weany Kim. It's pretty funny taking our astronauts.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Wow, that a good joke. Yes.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
So this is just yet more proof, as if you
needed it, that the whole green energy climate change thing
was a for profit scam. This is some great writing.
Holman Jenkins, who I really enjoy he's talking about. You know,
during the Obama years, they there was a finding by
the EPA. I think it was that carbon emissions that
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caused climate change threatened people's health, so they could regulate
it like mercury in the rivers or smog in the air.
And he's writing about how thirty nine scientists from various
organizations just signed to find signed a finding that in
fact green greenhouse gases are in fact a danger because
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the Trump administration EPA just said no, they're not. So
you got these thirty nine scientists anyway, So to quote Jenkins,
read On realized their book length report is concocted for
a bureaucratic and legalistic purpose, not a scientific one. The
finding in the Obama years came to justify regulatory actions
that have zero impact none on climate change. Not only
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are US emissions too small a share of the global
total to matter. In practice, EPA actions mostly just drive
US emissions off shore. Whatever they think that thirty nine
scientists are part of a machine now defending its own
activity and privilege in one of the biggest boondoggles in
the history of policy making. And then he points out,
and I was totally unaware of this, Michael Moore, the
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fat progressive film director.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Why would I take a shot in his body shape
it helps us necessary?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I disagree. I think it was necessary. I think it
helps describe who the person is for people who aren't sure.
Oh yeah, the fat progressive film documentary guy.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, Okay, the judges will permit it. It will stand.
Objection overruled anyway.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
He had a movie come out in twenty nineteen, Planet
of the Humans, and he says, remember that, of course
you don't. It was shadow banned by the left and
film distributors, not because it wasn't climate apocalyptic y enough
over the top on climate apocalyptics. It was shadow band
for pointing out that the US climate policy was a fraud.
(21:09):
Oh so Michael, who actually believes this stuff? Okay, so
he actually believes climate changes a problem, we need to
worry about it, and that all the stuff we're doing
is fake and people need to know that because we're
not making a debt. Well, good for him, I mean,
you know, that's better than knowingly lying like the al
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Gore crowd is doing. Right, as Jenkins rights, it consisted
of colossal pork barrel spending that was having no effect
on the ellection problem.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That is amazing. Michael Moore, one of the most revered
documentary filmmakers of the left, ever gets memory hold on. Yeah, wow,
that's interesting.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
They have Richard York at the University of Oregon seen
marveling in the film at the self willed blindness of
the US policy community to simple question to clean energy
subsidies result in fossil fuels being displaced, He says in
a voice of wonder, No, they don't even know that
that's the question. It reminds me of when Californians found
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out that not only was there no measure of how
effective the bums and junkies billions of dollars spent had been,
there wasn't even a mechanism to look into the question.
And that's what this guy's saying about the the climate
change stuff, you know, and then he goes into details.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's totally interesting and good writing. But so like, I'm pretty.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'm pretty optimistic that we're on the other side of
the whole trans issue and we're never going to go
back to it at its peak, you know, from a
couple of years ago where things were just off the rails.
But I don't I don't have much faith that we'll
get on the other side of the climate change thing
where people will start being honest. Do you think maybe
we're actually our head in that direction.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
That's going to be a tough because a lot of
people are completely convinced that what they have been told
is correct. Well, I met more on the left is
dedicated to keeping that then.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, I met more in terms of being honest about
what things actually are doing something and aren't doing something.
I mean, to Michael Moore's point, you need more people
like him or saying yeah, climate change is real, but
the stuff we're doing isn't doing anything. I'm not worried
about climate change the way he is, but none of
these things are doing any good. So what are we
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doing it for? You combine people that don't believe in
climate change with people who are honest about it but
realize this stuff is phony and maybe we could kill
it most of it right, because we can't actually do it.
We can't actually do anything about it.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Reality bats last, as we often say, I feel good
that it's moving in that direction. There are a bunch
of headlines actually that the entire world Europe is is
now put its electric car in backward, in reverse when
it comes to electric vehicles. The whole world is saying,
you know, this wasn't quite what everybody is saying it was,
including even China, which leads the world in electric vehicle
(24:12):
use and sales and manufacture and.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
The rest of it.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
So I think, I think sanity is creeping into the issue.
But a couple of more stories real quickly unless you
add more on that. I love the topic, But the
United Nations is about to tax you. If if you know,
the other stuff we've talked to about today hasn't boiled
your frog already, this will global government voters. Voters are
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showing their opposition to the net zero climate agenda whenever
they get the chance in the US and increasingly in Europe.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It just doesn't make sense. People don't like it.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
But that isn't stopping the United Nations, which this week
is poised to impose what amounts to a global tax
on carbon emissions. And yes, if you're wondering, this is
the de mission of taxation without representation.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Here's how they're doing it.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
The International Maritime Organization, a UN body based in London,
hopes that it's meeting this week to secure final approval
for its net zero framework for shipping, and it would
impose charges per metric ton of carbon dioxide that ships
emit above certain levels, and the tax would be several
hundred dollars per metric ton, depending on various factors. That
could translate to an annual tax take of ten to
(25:26):
twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And then see how many of the people behind that
new rule somehow profit from that. But that's horrifying. So
I mentioned that I listened to a podcast.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
And all the money would go to the UN. By
the way, oh lovely right.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I mentioned I was listened to a podcast out of
Great Britain talking about what a disaster their net zero.
They really took net zero seriously and just destroyed their
economy a lot of Europe did. In fact, I got
a stat on that that I wanted to bring that
I came.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
In poll seventy five percent of Brits agree with the
statement Britain is broken seventy five percent just.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
In general, not just around climate change stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, but I mean that selling out the economy to
that cult is one of the main drivers of unhappiness
and dissatisfaction of all of Europe.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yesterday it was announced Ninvidia is worth more than the
entire German stock market. That one company, Mississippis. We had
this stat last week. Mississippi's per capita income is almost
the same as Germany's. So the most powerful economy in Europe,
Germany is roughly the same as our poorest state in
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the United States.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yes, that is incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
And one thing we don't we don't have a near
enough understanding of in this country is why we have
such an engine of creativity and growth.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's called liberty, for God's sake.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, we've been the richest country for a long time,
but not to this extent versus a relative to Europe.
And a lot of it is because of all that
climate change crap. They did so much climate change crap
to just destroy their economies. That's amazing. Though our poorest
state is as powerful as Germany.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
It's incredible. Yeah. It really is.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Final story that I wanted to squeeze in because it's
all kind of related. Note to self by stock In
nuclear here's the headline for you. US Army plans to
power bases with tiny nuclear reactors. The Janus program fulfills
Trump order to start powering military installations with state of
the art nuclear technology.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
This is such a great idea.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Dang right.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Time to go nuke, Hey, hippies with your no nuke
crap and your climate change bulls, and I wish I
could use the word your day is done.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Man.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I just pray that JD. Vance wins the next election
or whomever there's. I mean, we got so far down
the road to Crazyville, it's going to take a minute
or two to get our way to find our way
back to Sanity Town, or at least Sanity Heights in
the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Exactly.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
So.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
The least attractive politician in America, and I mean that
personality wise, is this Katie Porter person Michael feel herself
out of my effing shot.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're asleep at the switch? No what hello?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
We don't have that clipy on this shot anyway. So
she tried to apologize yesterday. It did not go well,
and we'll have that for you coming up.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Stay do.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
So the always attempting to make a joke John Kennedy
of Louisiana Sorry Alive, did a pretty good at mocking
im uh conceptualizing him. Saturday night, John Kennedy, always trying
to make a joke, said probably the best way to
end the shutdown would be the lock fun and Schumer
in a room with Katie Porter and tell them they
can't come out until there's a deal.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
That's funny. It is, that is funny. The delightful Katie
Porter of California. Have you heard her act? This is
what brought her to a lot of people's attention last week.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And the state could lose.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
You're out of my shot.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
It's not that it's electric vehicles.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
It's that you don't need commitment Paris climb report.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Okay, it does.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
You also were in my shot before that. Stay out
of my shot, Stay out of my shots.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Off and.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
I gotta have a dance remex Come on Internet, what
are you doing there?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Going lazy on me?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
And then the video where she cuts short an interview
with a perfectly reasonable reporter because she.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Just didn't want to.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Well, she's had seething ball of hatred and anger. Everybody
knows that she poured boiling mashed potatoes on her husband's head.
She's known as missus potato Head in Orange County, California,
et cetera. Well, she realizes that her hopes of being
the governor of the most corrupt state in the Union
are shaky now because she had really been in the lead,
(30:22):
because she's the best water carrier and you know, doer
of deeds for the powers that actually run California guarantee
unions and the lawyers.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I guarantee you, in the back of her mind she
has inklings of being President of the United States someday.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Well so, anyway, having realized that her being exposed as
an angry her mounculus with a face like a closed
fist has heard her chances, she's now doing the apology circuit.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
And here's how it went. We'll start with ad Michael.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
Should California voters feel confident that there aren't any more
Katie Porter videos out there, well, what.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
I know is that I could have done better in
those moments. I'm going to be focused on earning their
votes and earning their trust. That's true in every election.
I've only ever had tough elections. So I'm absolutely aware
that I'm going to have to continue to show them.
I'm going to have to answer every question. I'm glad
I got to continue that interview and finish that interview
and answer all her questions. And that's what I'm going
to continue to do to show Californians not only that
(31:25):
I understand their problems, but that I have the will
and the strength of character to actually get something done.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Why are politicians so tiring when they go into there?
We know what you're going to say, Spiel just so tiring.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, that was not bad.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
She is reasonably skillful when she's not in the throes
of her frequent temper tantrums. But the reporter ed is
dog it on her trail and wants to follow up.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
But not just the CBS interview, the interview with the staffer.
Can voters be confident that there won't be another one
of those videos that's going to come to light?
Speaker 10 (32:01):
What I do know is that I could have done
better in that situation.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Does not to know? So is there potentially another video
that we're going to see?
Speaker 10 (32:08):
Nikki? I'm going to be honest with you. I know
that that video and that video was several years ago,
as you know, And I apologize to the staffer that's
super important to me, and will continue to try to
hold myself to do better. That's that's what I can promise.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Stop asking me this question. I'm gonna put potatoes on
your head and Nicki Lorenzo the Fox forty reporter is
not having.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
It, but not that there's not going to be any
more videos, because that's that's what people are wondering. Are
we going to see something else like that?
Speaker 10 (32:41):
I can tell you what I've told you, which is
that I am taking responsibility for this situation, and I'm
also not going to back down from from fighting back
for California, from being tough. I don't I don't think
this is a moment where the same old, same old
is going to cut it. But that doesn't change the
fact that I what I did to that stuff her
was wrong. I've acknowledged it to her in that moment,
(33:03):
and I've acknowledged it now.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
She's ground all the enamel off of her teeth right
by now in the interview, trying not to attack the
reporter with her hands because she is such.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
A fuful anger.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
If she had had a pot of boiling potatoes handy,
she would have dumped them on the potato on the
reporter's head.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Thank god she didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Her answer was, if you can't read between the lines, yes,
there are many more videos out there. I'm a horrible person.
I have yelled at children, I have drowned cats, I
have done all kinds of awful things, and they're all
on video, and they're going to come out and I'm
gonna have to answer for all of them.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
What you need to understand, Nikki, is that those incidents
weren't exceptions. That's how I live my life. So yes,
there are almost certainly.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That he should have said, do you mean today, I've
done it several times today, or a bit DMB video
doing awful things?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
So I've got them catalog.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Do you want me screaming at a handicapped man, a
handicapped woman, a small child, a child with a cat
or without a cat. We've got it all alphabetized, berating
a staffer, berating a voter.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
What would you like me berating? I got my whole
berating category. Yes, Katie, and that's Katie. There's actually a
video service called Cameo where she could set herself up
and people could purchase videos of her yelling at them,
and she could give up politics and make a boatload
of money doing that. That'd be funny. I have friends
who nothing could be funnier, But if I had her
yelling at them for their birthday, I'd pay fifty bucks
(34:28):
for that. Absolutely. So we used to have Steve Hilton
on Now and Then. He's a British guy who you
see on Fox as his own show. He tweeted out,
Katie Porter just ripped the mask off. These California Democrat
politicians are all like this, an arrogant, entitled ruling elite
who think they're above accountability for their failures. I think
that's very true. That happens in all one party states.
(34:49):
It's just the history of one party governance. You end
up with lots of people like this who think they
can say and do anything right.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Into paraphrase the great Katie Grimes in this cavalcade of Katie's,
you don't rise to the top of California politics by
being a good leader or politician. You do it by
prostituting yourself to the special interests period, the public employee.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Unions and the related unions.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
They don't give a crap whether you have the good
of the people California and in your heart. No, they
just want you to carry their water. So, yeah, you
get to Katie Porter's. Can you imagine her being the
best choice to lead a state?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Please?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I can't believe that she actually went with I fell short.
Given the fact that that's Gavin Newsom's phrase from when
he got caught eaten at the French laundry door.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
We all fall short. Sometimes thought she would have the
same PR people. I'll bet they do. They probably hired
the same crisis PR company.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
You'd have thought that she I'm going to hold myself
to a higher standard and do better. I know that
I fell short. You can't say that when Gavin is
the last plitician in California to have a level this
level controversy.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
What else are you gonna say? I suck?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
People hate me and I hate them and I hate them.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
After his groundbreaking trip to the Middle East, President Trump
with a warning to her Mass, saying they must disarm
as part of the next phase of his peace plan Israel,
accusing her Mass of violating this ceased five deal by
not releasing the remains of more hostages, threatening to cut
desperately needed aid into Gaza in retaliation.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So they gave the live hostages back. They're supposed Hamas
is supposed to give back all the deceased. Were they
passed away, what natural causes, the people that were murdered
or tortured to death or starved to death. They're supposed
to give those remains back. And they're like any two
bodies Hamas has not returned to Israel. They returned one
yesterday that turned out to be somebody else. Yeah. So
(01:07):
here's Trump in his own words, key on the word
we and wonder who we is here.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Well, they're going to disarm, and because they said they
were going to disarm, and if they don't disarm, we
will disarm them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
How you do that?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I don't have to explain that to you. But if
they don't disarm, we will disarm them. They know I'm
not playing games.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We have.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Told them we want disarmed, and they will disarm. And
if they don't disarm, we will disarm them, and it'll
happen quickly and perhaps violently. But they will disarm. Do
you understand me, because you always everyone says, oh, well,
they won't disarm, they will disarm. And I spoke to
Hamas and I said, you're going to disarm, right, Yes, sir,
(01:51):
we're going to disarm.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That's what they tell me.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
They will disarm or we will disarm them.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I should try that on my kids because it clearly
works for him, or he thinks it's important to repeat
your main message. Oh yeah, like fifteen times. I should
try that more often. Anyway, Who's we Hamas will either
disarm or we will disarm them, perhaps violently.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
The signatories to the treaty, the accord. I mean, what
he really means is Israel with US support.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Doesn't he? I assume?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, but it is not going to disarm willingly.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So it's like if I'm a Dodgers fan and I say,
we really looked good last night. I don't actually do anything.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's you and show Heo Tani right collectively wanted to.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Get this on. I actually I haven't heard this. This
is one of the freed Israeli hostages talking about if
Kamala had been elected. Well, this is back in February.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
He was released at his owner chef told and he's
talking about the fact that he was treated poorly by Hamas.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And then when Donald Trump was elected.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Much they were they want't uh.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We're afraid of Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They wanted Kaman to be.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Each other you talked to politics and that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They wanted Kamana to be an active when Trump came
into Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Uh, you're waiting to cheat at us, change.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
More food shot.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
That.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You know. That doesn't surprise me. Does it surprise you
that Amasa crap Trump got elected? Uh? Well, I mean
Kamala Harris was sending the message on a daily basis,
do whatever the hell you want. We're gonna lean on Israel.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Leave leave Amas alone, leave them in peace. Right. Yeah,
isn't that something that's you know, uh, put aside.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Your political theories and theorists and talking heads on cable TV.
That's real world proof of what you know we've been
saying for a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Speaking of putting away your political theory, I'll just touch
on this Tom Friedman in the New York Times. I
don't know if you read him, but he's one of
the most respected thinkers on the Middle East. I don't
always agree with him. He's a super lefty. He always
sides with Democrat ideas and hates Republicans for the most part.
So that's one of the reasons this is so interesting
what he has written today in the New York Times.
(04:25):
Mister Trump, on the Middle East, please move fast and
break things. And he writes Listening to President Trump telling
Israelis and Arabs on Monday that they were at the
historic dawn of a new Middle East was like watching
Trump selling his bankers on a plan to build the biggest,
most beautiful, most amazing hotel in the world on a
toxic waste dump. On the one hand, you tell yourself,
(04:45):
this man must be crazy. Doesn't he know the history
of this place. You can't build a hotel there. On
the other hand, a voice in the back of your
head whispers, what if he can bring it off. Trump's
ability to combine bullying, flattering and exaggeration is truly a
site to behold, and it was on full display Monday
and his address to the Israeli kanness It and then
to more of the twenty world leaders there. I will
(05:06):
give Trump this. No traditional diplomat on foreign policy or
foreign policy professor would have advised the president to take
such risks, to declare that we are on the road
to Middle East peace and that he Donald Trump will
chair the Board of Peace, then we'll deliver it. But
Trump went to business school, not the school of foreign service,
and he clearly believes that he can cajole, muscle, and
(05:28):
bluster this conflict to a happy ending. And I'm not
going to bet against him or for him, but I'll
give but I do think he can pull it off.
That's an amazing thing from somebody who hates Donald Trump
as much as Tom Friedman. This whole recognizing that ignoring
the rules of the past can work in your favor.
(05:51):
Obviously it wouldn't always work in your favor, but sometimes
it can. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I was thinking about.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Trump as the proverbial bull in the China Show. And
there are situations where the China shop. The China that
you're talking about is just the tired out, old expectations
and conventional wisdom we've.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Been talking about.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
It needs a bull because the China shop sucks. Nobody
wants the China, nobody buys it, and it just sits
there collecting dust. And his point about how Trump, you know,
presents a grand vision. In the case of the Middle
East and the various actors, the various heads of the
(06:32):
countries and diplomats, they are now put in a position
of either I go along with that grand vision or
I face Trump's cajoling, bullying and bombs. So it's a
beautiful example of that if you have an intractable problem,
make it bigger. And now they're all in the position
(06:52):
of this brave, beautiful new Middle East.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Am I on board or not?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I guess I'm on board talking about a big, beautiful,
brave Middle East. A couple of years ago, it was
the very narrow, just tired out two state solution. We
must work toward a t state solution, which is just
the worst sort of flip service to dissolving the problem.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's gonna be something to watch over the next well,
not even months or years, maybe hours and days at
least on this whole returning the bodies situation and the
disarming situation again, they will disarm or we will disarm them.
And he means now.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Right, I really want to get to the Hamas situation
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Speaker 1 (08:40):
It's good to be right.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
So the situation in Gaza right now is crazy. So
they're at peace with Israel Hamas is, but instead of
laying down their arms and making clear that now is
the time for peace, Hamas is quickly real arming, trying
to take control of the streets, show that they're still
(09:03):
in charge, and they're rounding up anybody who's opposed them
now that these Israelis are out of the way, and
either exiling them or shooting them dead in the streets
in front of crowds.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well, they're claiming that they're having trials, oh yeah, and
finding them guilty right.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Of collaborating with the Israelis or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't know if you've seen some of the pictures
and videos, but they are horrific, horrific.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Clashes around a hospital in Gaza City on Sunday left
dozens dead, some peace according to the Hamas unit.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Videos emerge Monday, verified by various news organizations that show
Hamas fighters dragging a number of men from one family
into a public square in broad daylight, forcing them to kneel,
and executing them in front of onlookers.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, there are rival gangs that want to be the
people that run Gaza instead of Hamas. Been running it
for a long long time, and Hamas's the people that
are left are saying no, you ain't.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah, And it's interesting the stuff that Trump said right
before the quotes that we were just playing. He was
asked about Hamas's deployment of security forces and ongoing crackdowns
while he was on Air Force one. He said the
group had understandably asked to be allowed to secure the
devastated enclave. Quote, they've been open about it, and we
gave them approval for a period of time. But they're
(10:28):
going to disarm, and if they don't disarm, we will
disarm them. And that whole bit.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Have you heard this stat that people keep mentioning that
Hamas still has a tunnel system the size of the
New York City subway system.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Wow, that's I heard there are a bunch that remained,
but not that that's significant.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
That's crazy, incredible. Yeah, yeah, so there's one story.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
One early target of the Hamas guys was the dog
Moosh family dog Mosh in Gaza City, long history of friction.
This family backed the Fatah faction.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Of the PLO. You may remember those guys from back
in the day.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
On Sunday, masked Hamas fighters armed with kalishnikovs and pistols
showed up outside the Jordanian Hospital in Gaza City. A
number of Dogmash family members had taken shelter there during
an Israeli offensive.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Hamas ordered them to leave.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
They also demanded the family hand over ten members it
alleged had cooperated with Israel. They said they couldn't turn
over its sons. At the hospital gates, armed Hamas fighters
threatened to clear the hospital by force unless the family
members left immediately. When they refused, some of the gunmen
raised their weapons. One pointed a weapon, and a family
member threatened to bring the hospital.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Down on top of him if he didn't leave.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Another family member shot the Hamask guy dead, and that
killing sharply escalated the fighting. Hamas closed off access around
the hospital, besieged the neighborhood and open fire with machine.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Guns, rocket propelled grenades.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Just absolute craziness, dead ender Islamist, death cult, gang banging scum.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
This could be pretty exciting over the next several days
or one thousand years.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a good thing. Trump is a hard
ass and Bbe's a hard ass. We'll have to see
how hard ass the Gulf States are, because it is
one hundred percent gonna take hard assidness to get Gaza
turned around.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
One percent.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Hard ass. Katie Porter, remember her from last week? She
became a bit of a household name. I hadn't even
heard of her here in California.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Get out of my fing shot.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I don't have to answer to that. I'm calling this
ah and we got she tried to apologize yesterday, So
we'll get to that coming up in just a little bit.
I want to talk about that and what was the
other thing on to get to Oh geez, we're gonna
take a look back at what somebody called the high
point in US debac that I had forgotten about. This
(13:02):
is just like a throwback Wednesday sort of thing. Oh wow,
that I think you'll find entertaining, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has been accused of drunkenly assaulting
a delivery driver before the driver stabbed him. The penalties
offset for pete first down. If convicted, Sanchez could be
sent to prison or worse.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Back to the Jets. Those are decent jokes around a
horrifying story of a drunken, giant, ex NFL football player
who decided to beat up an old man, or beat
an old man to death is what he was going
to do until that old man, until that old man
pulled a knife. Did you see that Sanchez's ex wife
came out or X. I don't know if they ever married. X.
(13:50):
Baby mom you came out and said I'm not surprised
she had full custody of their kid because he's a
violent lunatic and said, I'm not surprised at all by
this so and degenerate drunk. Yeah, yeah, that's a rough story. So, boy,
this is apropos of nothing. I just I was scrolling
media and I came across this somebody who's calling this
(14:10):
the low point or peak moment of US democracy or whatever.
So we all remember the disastrous debate between Trump and Biden.
It changed the course of perhaps world history see the
Middle East currently. But we forget this part of it.
I mean, if you remember watching it, it degenerated into
this toward the end. This is not flattering for either
(14:32):
one of them or for America as a whole.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I just won two club championships, not even senior, two
regular club championships. To do that, you have to be
quite smart, and you have to be able to hit
the ball a long way. And I do it. He
doesn't do it. He can't hit a ball fifty yards.
He challenged me to a golf match. He can't hit
a ball fifty years.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
He's happy to have a driving contest. Yet, Kareim, I
got my handicapped, which when I was vice president, down
to a six. By the way, I told you, I'm
happy to play golf. If you carry your own bag,
I think you can do it.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
That's the biggest line. When he's a six handicap of all,
I was an eight handicap.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah eight. Oh no, I've seen you swing.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
I know you swing.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It was worse than I remember. I know me too.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
That's why I wanted to play it, because we all
got I mean it drove the guy. It drove the
sitting president out of office. It is a world changing
I mean from the first moment, so we forgot that
happened at the end, but when they got in it,
and it goes on after that, when they got into
that long conversation of which eighty year old is the
best golfer? I mean it was like a couple of
(15:43):
todder sitting around the clubhouse after too many beers, and
in that setting, it would be embarrassing. Yeah, you're right.
If it were kind of getting late at night at
the bar there at the golf course and you got
a couple of eighty year olds getting into it over
who's the best golfer, you'd think.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Is you were never a six?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
This is the general was this, Can you even carry
your bag? I don't think you're good.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I'll play an I'll play you anytime if you carry
your bag, think you can? Alright, fellas, we gotta talk
about Marthon else.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Uh, you didn't see the visual. But when Biden says,
and God does Biden sound one hundred and fifty years
old than.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
That, I was just gonna say that was the other
big impression was that it sounds like two old men
arguing about golf. Well, one of them is in his deathbed,
right right, Let me die in peace.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You have to attack my golfing here in the last
moments of my life.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Let my family in here stop yelling at me about golf.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But when Biden says I got my handicapped down to
a six, Trump rolls his eyes and makes his face
looks so funny, like he he is actually personally offended
by the fact that Biden claimed he had his six handicap.
That's what was on his mind during the presidential debate.
That guy's lying about his handicap. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Oh wow, low moment, definitely.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Anyway, speaking of bad politics, that simmering ball of angry hate,
Katie Porter of California attempting to apologize.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Oh that went well, we'll have that audio for you.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah. Yeah, I wonder how much she blew up her career.
We'll know soon enough. How many times does an apology
and I mean not in politics, just in any realm
not make things worse? I think only if you like
(17:53):
apologize immediately and it's like out of your own mind,
as opposed to anytime somebody focus groups or talks to
you know, some handler or something like that. Whether it's
a corporation or whatever, it almost always makes a situation
worse right, fuel to the fire, for sure, almost always. Anyway,
we got that for you. A whole bunch of other
stuff on the way. If you miss the second, get
(18:14):
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Katy Perry, the pop music superstar Wars spotted smooching a
former Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. What a couple.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I've been wondering.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
How Canada was gonna exact their revenge for the.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Tariffs, and this is it. They're taking our women.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
They're not just taking our women, they're taking our astronauts.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That's a good jo and he's not an obnoxious political
weany Kim. It's pretty funny taking our astronauts.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Wow, that a good joke. Yes.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
So this is just yet more proof, as if you
needed it, that the whole green energy climate change thing
was a for profit scam. This is some great writing.
Holman Jenkins, who I really enjoy he's talking about. You know,
during the Obama years, they there was a finding by
the EPA. I think it was that carbon emissions that
(19:20):
caused climate change threatened people's health, so they could regulate
it like mercury in the rivers or smog in the air.
And he's writing about how thirty nine scientists from various
organizations just signed to find signed a finding that in
fact green greenhouse gases are in fact a danger because
(19:40):
the Trump administration EPA just said no, they're not. So
you got these thirty nine scientists anyway, So to quote Jenkins,
read On realized their book length report is concocted for
a bureaucratic and legalistic purpose, not a scientific one. The
finding in the Obama years came to justify regulatory actions
that have zero impact none on climate change. Not only
(20:01):
are US emissions too small a share of the global
total to matter. In practice, EPA actions mostly just drive
US emissions off shore. Whatever they think that thirty nine
scientists are part of a machine now defending its own
activity and privilege in one of the biggest boondoggles in
the history of policy making. And then he points out,
and I was totally unaware of this, Michael Moore, the
(20:25):
fat progressive film director.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Why would I take a shot in his body shape
it helps us necessary?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I disagree. I think it was necessary. I think it
helps describe who the person is for people who aren't sure.
Oh yeah, the fat progressive film documentary guy.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, Okay, the judges will permit it. It will stand.
Objection overruled anyway.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
He had a movie come out in twenty nineteen, Planet
of the Humans, and he says, remember that, of course
you don't. It was shadow banned by the left and
film distributors, not because it wasn't climate apocalyptic y enough
over the top on climate apocalyptics. It was shadow band
for pointing out that the US climate policy was a fraud.
(21:09):
Oh so Michael, who actually believes this stuff? Okay, so
he actually believes climate changes a problem, we need to
worry about it, and that all the stuff we're doing
is fake and people need to know that because we're
not making a debt. Well, good for him, I mean,
you know, that's better than knowingly lying like the al
(21:29):
Gore crowd is doing. Right, as Jenkins rights, it consisted
of colossal pork barrel spending that was having no effect
on the ellection problem.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That is amazing. Michael Moore, one of the most revered
documentary filmmakers of the left, ever gets memory hold on. Yeah, wow,
that's interesting.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
They have Richard York at the University of Oregon seen
marveling in the film at the self willed blindness of
the US policy community to simple question to clean energy
subsidies result in fossil fuels being displaced, He says in
a voice of wonder, No, they don't even know that
that's the question. It reminds me of when Californians found
(22:13):
out that not only was there no measure of how
effective the bums and junkies billions of dollars spent had been,
there wasn't even a mechanism to look into the question.
And that's what this guy's saying about the the climate
change stuff, you know, and then he goes into details.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's totally interesting and good writing. But so like, I'm pretty.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'm pretty optimistic that we're on the other side of
the whole trans issue and we're never going to go
back to it at its peak, you know, from a
couple of years ago where things were just off the rails.
But I don't I don't have much faith that we'll
get on the other side of the climate change thing
where people will start being honest. Do you think maybe
we're actually our head in that direction.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
That's going to be a tough because a lot of
people are completely convinced that what they have been told
is correct. Well, I met more on the left is
dedicated to keeping that then.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, I met more in terms of being honest about
what things actually are doing something and aren't doing something.
I mean, to Michael Moore's point, you need more people
like him or saying yeah, climate change is real, but
the stuff we're doing isn't doing anything. I'm not worried
about climate change the way he is, but none of
these things are doing any good. So what are we
(23:32):
doing it for? You combine people that don't believe in
climate change with people who are honest about it but
realize this stuff is phony and maybe we could kill
it most of it right, because we can't actually do it.
We can't actually do anything about it.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Reality bats last, as we often say, I feel good
that it's moving in that direction. There are a bunch
of headlines actually that the entire world Europe is is
now put its electric car in backward, in reverse when
it comes to electric vehicles. The whole world is saying,
you know, this wasn't quite what everybody is saying it was,
including even China, which leads the world in electric vehicle
(24:12):
use and sales and manufacture and.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
The rest of it.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
So I think, I think sanity is creeping into the issue.
But a couple of more stories real quickly unless you
add more on that. I love the topic, But the
United Nations is about to tax you. If if you know,
the other stuff we've talked to about today hasn't boiled
your frog already, this will global government voters. Voters are
(24:37):
showing their opposition to the net zero climate agenda whenever
they get the chance in the US and increasingly in Europe.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It just doesn't make sense. People don't like it.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
But that isn't stopping the United Nations, which this week
is poised to impose what amounts to a global tax
on carbon emissions. And yes, if you're wondering, this is
the de mission of taxation without representation.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Here's how they're doing it.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
The International Maritime Organization, a UN body based in London,
hopes that it's meeting this week to secure final approval
for its net zero framework for shipping, and it would
impose charges per metric ton of carbon dioxide that ships
emit above certain levels, and the tax would be several
hundred dollars per metric ton, depending on various factors. That
could translate to an annual tax take of ten to
(25:26):
twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And then see how many of the people behind that
new rule somehow profit from that. But that's horrifying. So
I mentioned that I listened to a podcast.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
And all the money would go to the UN. By
the way, oh lovely right.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I mentioned I was listened to a podcast out of
Great Britain talking about what a disaster their net zero.
They really took net zero seriously and just destroyed their
economy a lot of Europe did. In fact, I got
a stat on that that I wanted to bring that
I came.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
In poll seventy five percent of Brits agree with the
statement Britain is broken seventy five percent just.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
In general, not just around climate change stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, but I mean that selling out the economy to
that cult is one of the main drivers of unhappiness
and dissatisfaction of all of Europe.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yesterday it was announced Ninvidia is worth more than the
entire German stock market. That one company, Mississippis. We had
this stat last week. Mississippi's per capita income is almost
the same as Germany's. So the most powerful economy in Europe,
Germany is roughly the same as our poorest state in
(26:43):
the United States.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yes, that is incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
And one thing we don't we don't have a near
enough understanding of in this country is why we have
such an engine of creativity and growth.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's called liberty, for God's sake.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, we've been the richest country for a long time,
but not to this extent versus a relative to Europe.
And a lot of it is because of all that
climate change crap. They did so much climate change crap
to just destroy their economies. That's amazing. Though our poorest
state is as powerful as Germany.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
It's incredible. Yeah. It really is.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Final story that I wanted to squeeze in because it's
all kind of related. Note to self by stock In
nuclear here's the headline for you. US Army plans to
power bases with tiny nuclear reactors. The Janus program fulfills
Trump order to start powering military installations with state of
the art nuclear technology.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
This is such a great idea.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Dang right.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Time to go nuke, Hey, hippies with your no nuke
crap and your climate change bulls, and I wish I
could use the word your day is done.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Man.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I just pray that JD. Vance wins the next election
or whomever there's. I mean, we got so far down
the road to Crazyville, it's going to take a minute
or two to get our way to find our way
back to Sanity Town, or at least Sanity Heights in
the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Exactly.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
So.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
The least attractive politician in America, and I mean that
personality wise, is this Katie Porter person Michael feel herself
out of my effing shot.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're asleep at the switch? No what hello?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
We don't have that clipy on this shot anyway. So
she tried to apologize yesterday. It did not go well,
and we'll have that for you coming up.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Stay do.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
So the always attempting to make a joke John Kennedy
of Louisiana Sorry Alive, did a pretty good at mocking
im uh conceptualizing him. Saturday night, John Kennedy, always trying
to make a joke, said probably the best way to
end the shutdown would be the lock fun and Schumer
in a room with Katie Porter and tell them they
can't come out until there's a deal.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
That's funny. It is, that is funny. The delightful Katie
Porter of California. Have you heard her act? This is
what brought her to a lot of people's attention last week.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And the state could lose.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
You're out of my shot.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
It's not that it's electric vehicles.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
It's that you don't need commitment Paris climb report.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Okay, it does.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
You also were in my shot before that. Stay out
of my shot, Stay out of my shots.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Off and.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
I gotta have a dance remex Come on Internet, what
are you doing there?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Going lazy on me?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
And then the video where she cuts short an interview
with a perfectly reasonable reporter because she.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Just didn't want to.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Well, she's had seething ball of hatred and anger. Everybody
knows that she poured boiling mashed potatoes on her husband's head.
She's known as missus potato Head in Orange County, California,
et cetera. Well, she realizes that her hopes of being
the governor of the most corrupt state in the Union
are shaky now because she had really been in the lead,
(30:22):
because she's the best water carrier and you know, doer
of deeds for the powers that actually run California guarantee
unions and the lawyers.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I guarantee you, in the back of her mind she
has inklings of being President of the United States someday.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Well so, anyway, having realized that her being exposed as
an angry her mounculus with a face like a closed
fist has heard her chances, she's now doing the apology circuit.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
And here's how it went. We'll start with ad Michael.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
Should California voters feel confident that there aren't any more
Katie Porter videos out there, well, what.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
I know is that I could have done better in
those moments. I'm going to be focused on earning their
votes and earning their trust. That's true in every election.
I've only ever had tough elections. So I'm absolutely aware
that I'm going to have to continue to show them.
I'm going to have to answer every question. I'm glad
I got to continue that interview and finish that interview
and answer all her questions. And that's what I'm going
to continue to do to show Californians not only that
(31:25):
I understand their problems, but that I have the will
and the strength of character to actually get something done.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Why are politicians so tiring when they go into there?
We know what you're going to say, Spiel just so tiring.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, that was not bad.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
She is reasonably skillful when she's not in the throes
of her frequent temper tantrums. But the reporter ed is
dog it on her trail and wants to follow up.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
But not just the CBS interview, the interview with the staffer.
Can voters be confident that there won't be another one
of those videos that's going to come to light?
Speaker 10 (32:01):
What I do know is that I could have done
better in that situation.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Does not to know? So is there potentially another video
that we're going to see?
Speaker 10 (32:08):
Nikki? I'm going to be honest with you. I know
that that video and that video was several years ago,
as you know, And I apologize to the staffer that's
super important to me, and will continue to try to
hold myself to do better. That's that's what I can promise.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Stop asking me this question. I'm gonna put potatoes on
your head and Nicki Lorenzo the Fox forty reporter is
not having.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
It, but not that there's not going to be any
more videos, because that's that's what people are wondering. Are
we going to see something else like that?
Speaker 10 (32:41):
I can tell you what I've told you, which is
that I am taking responsibility for this situation, and I'm
also not going to back down from from fighting back
for California, from being tough. I don't I don't think
this is a moment where the same old, same old
is going to cut it. But that doesn't change the
fact that I what I did to that stuff her
was wrong. I've acknowledged it to her in that moment,
(33:03):
and I've acknowledged it now.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
She's ground all the enamel off of her teeth right
by now in the interview, trying not to attack the
reporter with her hands because she is such.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
A fuful anger.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
If she had had a pot of boiling potatoes handy,
she would have dumped them on the potato on the
reporter's head.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Thank god she didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Her answer was, if you can't read between the lines, yes,
there are many more videos out there. I'm a horrible person.
I have yelled at children, I have drowned cats, I
have done all kinds of awful things, and they're all
on video, and they're going to come out and I'm
gonna have to answer for all of them.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
What you need to understand, Nikki, is that those incidents
weren't exceptions. That's how I live my life. So yes,
there are almost certainly.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That he should have said, do you mean today, I've
done it several times today, or a bit DMB video
doing awful things?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
So I've got them catalog.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Do you want me screaming at a handicapped man, a
handicapped woman, a small child, a child with a cat
or without a cat. We've got it all alphabetized, berating
a staffer, berating a voter.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
What would you like me berating? I got my whole
berating category. Yes, Katie, and that's Katie. There's actually a
video service called Cameo where she could set herself up
and people could purchase videos of her yelling at them,
and she could give up politics and make a boatload
of money doing that. That'd be funny. I have friends
who nothing could be funnier, But if I had her
yelling at them for their birthday, I'd pay fifty bucks
(34:28):
for that. Absolutely. So we used to have Steve Hilton
on Now and Then. He's a British guy who you
see on Fox as his own show. He tweeted out,
Katie Porter just ripped the mask off. These California Democrat
politicians are all like this, an arrogant, entitled ruling elite
who think they're above accountability for their failures. I think
that's very true. That happens in all one party states.
(34:49):
It's just the history of one party governance. You end
up with lots of people like this who think they
can say and do anything right.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Into paraphrase the great Katie Grimes in this cavalcade of Katie's,
you don't rise to the top of California politics by
being a good leader or politician. You do it by
prostituting yourself to the special interests period, the public employee.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Unions and the related unions.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
They don't give a crap whether you have the good
of the people California and in your heart. No, they
just want you to carry their water. So, yeah, you
get to Katie Porter's. Can you imagine her being the
best choice to lead a state?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Please?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I can't believe that she actually went with I fell short.
Given the fact that that's Gavin Newsom's phrase from when
he got caught eaten at the French laundry door.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
We all fall short. Sometimes thought she would have the
same PR people. I'll bet they do. They probably hired
the same crisis PR company.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
You'd have thought that she I'm going to hold myself
to a higher standard and do better. I know that
I fell short. You can't say that when Gavin is
the last plitician in California to have a level this
level controversy.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
What else are you gonna say? I suck?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
People hate me and I hate them and I hate them.
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