July 9, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Talks with Putin & Trump's frustration
- Suspicious falling out of windows in Russia
- Vacations & the rioters ambushing ICE
- Your devices are spying on you
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm not happy with President Putin at all, but this
is something that would have never happened about.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
With President This is a war that was never going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Said more weapons to Ukrain.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
We're going to search some more weapons.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We have to.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
They have to be able to defend themselves.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
They're getting hit very hard.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Now, including overnight the story that it includes patriot missile batteries,
and we'll get into that in just a little bit.
But here's here's the big turn. And most people seem
to think Trump's never talked this way about Putin before.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We get a lot of vote thrown at us by
Puttin for you one another. True, it's very nice all
the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Do you want to say that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'm looking at it. Yeah, No, I'm looking at the
Senator is passing and passed us very very tough sanctions. Yeah,
I'm looking at it. It's an optional bill. It's totally
at my option. They pass it totally at my option
and to terminate totally at my option, and I'm looking
at it very strongly.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
So, Uh, first of all, the fact that every news
outlet isn't playing that clip unbleeped is amazing to me
because it's the President of the United States talking about
the issue of war and peace in the United States involvement.
So having his full statement, because it carries more weight, seems.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Like, you know, that's necessary to me.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
But I mean not just to be able to say
bulls on the air, but the president. I mean, it
has more impact. And the president talking about how involved
were to be in a war is a big deal.
Any who won't get off on that. That's definitely the
most forceful anti Putin talk ever out of Donald Trump.
(02:11):
And I don't know if you saw over the weekend
after he got off the phone with Putin, because it
happened over fourth of July weekend. He was walking across
the White House lawn and he asked he was asked
how the phone call what with Putine?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
He said, not good? Not good, I mean shaking his head.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
So he's clearly, for whatever reason, finally now reached the
conclusion that Putin's full of crap in terms of wanton
piece or working toward peace or anything like that. And
last night, and I feel like I've said this fifteen
times in the last month. Last night Russia launched the
(02:44):
largest attack of the entire war on Ukraine, with seven
hundred drones and thirteen missiles, attacking all kinds of different
civilian structures and people. They were bombing recruiting stations, so
Putin knows where people are in line to sign up
to go fight, and he's bombing nose and killing people
(03:06):
while he's stand in line.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Right, It's all at war, definitely, and I'm a little
disappointed it took Trump this long to get there. As
I said yesterday, I don't think he comprehends ideological extremists
or ideology in general really, unless it's you know, his
own ideology. But the idea that the moas in Iran
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they're not interested in a prosperous and happy society. They're
interested in Islamism taking over the globe. And Putin isn't
interested in peace and prosperity. He's interested in restoring the
Russian Empire and becoming some sort of a latter day
Peter the Great. But Trump just doesn't get that and
it bothers me also that he seems at least half
(03:51):
frustrated with Putin because Putin bulessed him. It's a personal thing,
as opposed to recognizing that Putin's aims are diametrically opposed
to the US's aims in Europe and the world, and
that's why you oppose him. On the other hand, he's
right all the things he's saying right now, He's absolutely right.
(04:12):
Putin has no desire for peace, and he's full of crap. Well,
he's a con man, he's a KGB operative.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
So also happening over the fourth of July weekend was
a pause in US supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That got a lot of news.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It was reported with the assumption that that was Donald
Trump's order, which you would assume to pause the the
sending weapons to Ukraine. And and you know, there's a
usual conversation about that Trump is a lackey of Putin,
or you know, is willing to give away Ukraine or
(04:50):
blah blah blah, whatever it is. So then but Trump
was asked about that pause having announced the night before,
So Monday night he announced, no, no, no, we're sending We're
sending weapons. That we have to defend themselves. He was
asked about it in this cabinet meeting slash press conference yesterday.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Last week, depending on paused some shipments of weapons to Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Did you approve of that?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
All?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
We wanted to put defensive weapons because Putin he's not
treating human beings right, He's killing too many people. So
we're sending some defensive weapons to Ukraine, and I've approved that.
So who ordered the pause last week?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
What didn't you tell me?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's a question ahead. Who ordered the pause last week?
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
So that started a lot of conversations, obviously. I mean,
that's a hell of an interesting thing, right, And he
didn't need to say that, but he did, sitting right
there with Pete Hegzeth to his left and Marco Rubio
to his right. So I've been I follow a lot
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of podcasts, so does Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And everything like that.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
People to get really in the weeds this stuff, and
the name Eldridge Colby comes up a lot from the
people that you know, really are into this. Eldridge Colby's
served in the first Trump administration and he's and he's
in this one also, and he is the national security.
He's a national security policy professional that was brought in
to deal with that issue for Trump first term in
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this term and is currently the Undersecretary of Defense for policy.
He is the leading guy and apparently has a lot
of sway in the push to stop worrying about the
Middle East. It's all about China, which I agree with
to a great extent. Stop worrying about other countries. China
is our main enemy. Being able to stop China from
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taking Taiwan is the number one thing. And it's suspected
that he through Hegzeth or he on his own or
Hexath agreed with him and was okay with it or whatever,
is the guy that stopped the shipment of weapons to
Ukraine and was hoping that would stay because he's worried
about our supplies of patriot missile batteries, in particular because
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it's the best technology out there for shooting down missiles
and drones and all that sort of stuff, and we're
now down to quite a low level. In The New
York Times is reporting on that today, and so that's
its own story.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, an important one. Certainly.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
This is a great example of competing goods that it's
not you're right, they're wrong. That is half and a half.
No's it's competing needs. I'm glad for Colby's voice because
you know, certainly in isolation, the things he's saying are
absolutely true and important to be said. Weather you know,
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halting shipment at arms, that it's like already on the
Polish with the Polish border.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Ready to go into Ukraine, and already that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And we already had committed this stuff. We'd already said
we would give you this stuff. So as going back
on a commitment also, and if it's being done by
you know, I guess the bucks got to stop with
hegzaeth right.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If it's being done.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Against the president's wishes or intent, that's a serious problem.
But anyway, into the supplies of some of these weapons,
as the New York Times right rights, As mister Trump's
disillusionment with the Russian leader was building, Pentagon officials were
growing increasingly concerned about the potential depletion of the American
stockpile of weapons, especially after Israel attacked Iran, you know,
(08:29):
because Iran might be coming after US officials in Washington
were worried that American bases in the region could be targeted,
especially if the United States joined Israel in striking Iran's
nuclear sites that would require more arms to defend American troops.
The Pentagon also rushed additional patriot anti missile batteries from
South Korea to the Gulf region, as military planners projected
how many patriot interceptors might be needed in a long conflict.
(08:54):
So we're like sending as much stuff as we got
from other places to.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The Middle East.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And heg Zeth and certainly Eldridge Colby might be thinking
more about China if China decides to jump ugly here.
It's a reasonable question and a conversation that should be had.
But the president's got to be in the loop.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I hope he is.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Uh. Yes, Yeah, that answer of his was a little
cryptic and surprising.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I don't know why he did tell me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
What was interesting is and then this is you know,
classic Trump, It's the way he operates.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
His initial answer.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
He clearly didn't want to throw somebody on the bus
and say that I didn't approve that he was dodging. Yeah,
but he's angry enough about it, I think, or pissed
off enough of that personally, Like it is, you know,
got to him personally that somebody did something without his
acknowledgment that you know, pressed on it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
He said it. He went ahead and said it. Yeah,
well it wasn't me.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
You know, what I find myself curious about is not
the momentary issue, as important as it is, but.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Let's look down the line and go more big picture.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
What is it about the current state of our arms manufacturing,
in our arms procurement that that has left us in
a situation where, for instance, various war planners and simulation
runners have said we would exhaust in two weeks our
weaponry that we would need to defend against China or
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you know, defend Taiwan against China, and it would take
two years to resupply it, or twenty years or whatever
it is, depending on which weapons.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
System you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Can we think creatively and aggressively about rectifying that? To me,
that is the bottom line issue that we are not
nearly self sufficient enough for dangerous times, having just come
off of a multi decade period of relative calm, peace
and prosperity. I mean, don't get me started about shipbuilding
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place it's pathetic, But likewise, the manufacturer Patriot missiles and
stuff that ought to be a national emergency, and I
hope Trump's looking into it.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
And so there's this big sanctions bill Lindsey Graham and
others who were behind sanctions on Russia that Trump also
talked about yesterday. But Trump said, yeah, I'm looking looking
real strong at that. And it's written in such a
way that he can implement the sanctions on Russia.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
On his own. We just played that.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Oh that was part of it. Okay, I was reading.
We can implement the sanctions on his own, and then
he can.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Stop those very good. I listen every day.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
And he can stop them on his own. So that's
a message to putin it. Hey, you better, you know,
you better treat me right, right?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Do you have more on this topic because I've got oh,
look at the time to come almost trite, but guy's
falling out of windows in Russia.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That's a good story. If you haven't heard that, a
couple of couple of new ones and they signal something
is going on. We'll get to that.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It's amazing how many people who get fired by Putin
then fall out of windows or have heart attacks or
commit suicide. They really need to look into windows safety
in Nusha top priority, among other things.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
On the way, President Trump with harsh words for Vladimir Putin,
saying he's not happy with the Russian leader. President Trump
now saying the US will resume weaponship ins to Ukraine
after some were recently paused by the Pentagon, and with
the head of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Heiksat sitting
right next to the President, the President insisting he didn't
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know who ordered that pause.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, that's a story, man, I think, And this just
in HEGZ was asked about it. The Defense secretary he
says he did not inform the White House before authorizing
the pause. Two bits of news there. One, he authorized
the pause, so it doesn't matter if Eldridge Colby was
advocating for it. The sect deaf authorized it. And he
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says he did not tell Trump about it, which it
seems it's like a big deal to me.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
But yeah, it would be a bigger deal if it
were not for the fact that the Trump administration, the
last one and this one, operate differently than others. And
because they're a little more unconventional. I think people aren't
sure exactly where their boundaries are. So it seems to
me it was Hegzeth and Colby saying, I wonder how
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much autonomy we do have over here. We're running out
of these patriot missiles. I say, we pause shipments and
talk about.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Yeah, it's certainly if they really believe that to their core,
that that's a mistake for us to be giving Ukraine
this many weapons we need to be prepared for China
and other problems. It would definitely be one of those
I'd rather get forgiveness and permission sort of situations.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I might do the same thing, right, Yeah, So I'm
not that troubled by it.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh, I just wonder if they survive. I just wonder
if Trump it keeps them around.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Oh, I think so. I think so.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I don't think it was a betrayal. It was just
going a little too far. Anyway, we'll see. Perhaps you'll
Trump will treat them like Putin treats his allies who
are on the outs. This is almost like worn out,
but I think it's worth revisiting now and again. First
Russian Transport Minister Roman Sterovhoit, who was fired on Monday,
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has shot himself, according to the official Newnits Agency. Perhaps
the disappointment and humiliation of the loss of his kosh
gig was too much for the man, and he decided
to end its life.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's a tragedy. Tragedy.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Indeed, when I heard that, I thought, did he shoot himself?
Did Putin have someone shoot him? Did they sit down
in the car with him and say, here's what's going
to happen to your family. If you don't shoot yourself,
we'll let you decide exactly.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
And a couple of days later, Andre Batalov, the vice
president of Russia's national oil pipeline, has been found dead
after allegedly falling out of a window of his home
in suburban Moscow.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Too much the suicide, but the claims of adult falling
out of windows.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Like all the damn time.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yeah, Russia really needs to make national window safety a campaign.
Better glass, I don't know, awareness, Maybe an area of rugs.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So the floor isn't so slick, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
As we've pointed out many times in case you don't
already know, the absurdity is the point. The unlikelyhood that
you would fall out of a window is the.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Point, right exactly, Putin says I can kill you. I
will make a hilariously idiotic claim about how you died
and nobody's gonna say nothing.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Mont the news will report it with a straight face.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
And this news outlet happens to have a little recap
of the unexplained deaths of high profile Russian figures just
since vlad Putin invaded Ukraine in twenty twenty two. You
got and anatotally Garashchenko, former head of Russian Aviation Research,
died after reportedly accidentally falling down numerous flights of stairs.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Boy, you fall down one flight of stairs, you make
that turn at the bottom, then fall down another flight.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That's unfortunate.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Here's a guy named sum Gorkin, editor in chief of
the major state newspaper Blah Blah Blah, died suddenly after
appearing to suffocate. According to the paper he used to helm.
Here's an energy executive died after falling overboard from a speedboat.
Appeared to suffocate. Is he just stopped breathing? It was
weird right after we put this eye dropper full of
stuff in his throat. Here's in a chairman of the
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board of Russia's largest private oil company died after falling
out of a sixth story window of a hospital.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Slipped and fell.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
A top manager of giant oil company found dead after
allegedly receiving a hangover treatment involving toad venom. That one's creative.
Here's a guy found hanged outside a villa. Here's a
guy found dead in his apartment along with the bodies
of his wife and daughter. Murder suicide. I'm sorry, we've
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run out of time. There are eight more.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'm next to a big window. I could be walking
over here. There's a bin NFL. Oh my god, careful Jack.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Dead, or I got a really bad hangover and I
try a little toad venom and it goes wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
That can happen. And again, that list is just the
last two and a half years. Has really something that
gets away of that going on, Armstrong and gety. The
heat was brutal all around the country. For the first
haiven years.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Ice cream truck drivers sold more ice cream than weed
the first eyes.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Wow, I guess that's a thing. Huh, ice cream driver's
selling weed. Yeah, i'd heard of that now and again
we've done that story, you know, a handful of times
through the years, but evidently it's so assumed in urban
areas that really running joke. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Wow, I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I'm glad I found that out in case my kid
decides to go h the ice cream truck every day.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Dad, I'm always going to the ice cream truck. Oh,
I love my ice cream. Oh look, I gotta apologize. Idiot, stupid, stupid, stupid.
Last segment, we were talking about all the people falling
out of windows and mysteriously dying in Russia just in
the last two and a half years, and the numbers
quet astounding because these are like important movers and shakers people.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Right, And you wouldn't think you'd become that big a
deal as a businessman or a politician yet be he's
so unable to stop yourself from tripping and falling out
of a window.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Well, and it's a thing among dictators that occasionally they
will thin the herd just to make sure nobody gets
too much power end or to keep everybody on edge.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't think this is that. I don't think so either.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
For it to be that many people of that much
prominence in the last couple of years suggests an insecurity
potent's feeling insecure about his rule and or their actual
rumblings going on.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
That was my ultimate point. I didn't get to it.
Last segment, I apologize deeply and humbly. Let's all move
on with our lives.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Before getting to something disturbing starting to feel optimistic, or
if you were feeling starting to feel optimistic, I'll bring.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You back down, all right. That's how I feel like.
It's my job.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Somebody sent me this hilarious meme. Who knows my vacation story.
Vacations are expensed. It's somebody standing there on the beach
looking at the ocean. Vacations are expensive, But how can
you put a price tag on your kids being ungrateful
in a different city?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
That is exactly right, Oh boy, I gotta admit.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
I mean, ultimately, at the end of the day, even now,
just a couple of days back from vacation, I have
positive feelings about it. I think they'll remember the rest
of their lives. Blah blah blah blah blah. But there
were moments during the vacation where I thought I could
have bought a decent used car for what this vacation costs.
And you're both miserable. What the hell next time? I'm
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just staying home?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Wow? Are leaving you home? Yeah? Exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I did think that too, And that might even be
true with my high school or he might be on
vacationing with mom and dad. I didn't vacation with mom
and dad when I was in high school. I was working.
I had other things to do, and I think if
they had asked me, it would have been weird. So
I don't know differ, Different people are different.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
So yeah, at one point in our childhoods, my parents
went with the on this was possible. Sometimes not all
the time, but you can bring a friend and so. Yeah,
and so there would be family time. Then independent time
is you know, the birds were leaving the nest bit
by bit. So we didn't take like long, exotic expensive vacations.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
We just like drove from Chicago to New Jersey, right right.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
If I ever meet Elon Musk, I want to ask
him why he makes Twitter the way he makes it
in some ways, as the thing I was about to
talk to just disappeared and it makes me very very angry,
let me find it here quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Standing by. Yeah, I hope this doesn't take me too long. Oh,
our friend Tim Sanderfer did retweet this, which is pretty good.
Have you heard this?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
So you remember that bridge the Francis Scott Key Bridge
that big boat plowed into and knocked it down course.
That was a year and four months ago that that
bridge collapsed. We still they still haven't started rebuilding a
new bridge. In fact, they just started yesterday demolishing the
old remains. And the point was made and Tim sender
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for being a libertarian small government guy. It only took
us four hundred and ten days to build the Empire
State Building in nineteen thirty. We've become less capable drowning
ourselves in red tape and regulation. China would have built
ten bridges by now.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
True. Yes, yeah, why aren't more people bothered by that?
We had the story yesterday about what is.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It, Katie, one building permit in Palisades, Yeah, after the
wire so far and however long that's been.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
One Yeah, one single family home on the six month
anniversary of the Palisades and the Eatans fire.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
If those four people weren't burned out of their homes
and their lives and chaos, they really ought to, you know,
have a march through the streets of La or or
form a coalition or something. They've been so maltreated by
the government of California in La County and the rest
of it assist it's horrifying. While Gavin Newsom is doing
press conference, is talking.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
About we're making real progress, We're freeing up the red tape.
I'll be running for president soon, look at me. Okay,
So here we go.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
This is byron Ne York in the Washington Examiner, the
headline being disturbing glimpses of Democratic anger, and I'll just
read the first part of it as it's written, because.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's pretty good. This is in quotes.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Our own base is telling us that we're not doing
good enough, said one Democratic lawmaker, quoted in an Axios
article that came out over the weekend that I didn't read.
Some of them have suggested what we really need to
do is be willing to get shot. They're talking about
protests at US Immigration and Customs enforcement facilities, ice that
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there needs to be blood to grab the attention of
press and the public. Another lawmaker told Axios that constituents
say civility isn't working and to get ready for violence
to fight to protect our democracy. Another Democrat said it's
like the Roman Coliseum. People just want more and more
of this spectacle. Byron York, writing obviously These are Democrats
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who have moved beyond the defeat them at the ballot
box stage of politics, and even beyond the protest by
civil disobedience stage. They're ready to turn a political fight
into a physical fight. Violence is already going on in Texas.
Over the weekend of militant group broadly allied with Democratic
views launched what officials called a coordinated attack on the
ICE one ICE facility that we talked about. According to
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court documents, it started at about ten thirty PM when
a group of ten to twelve Antifa radicals dressed in
all black began shooting fireworks towards the building. Some began
to vandalize parked cars. When unarmed ICE workers called nine
to one one. A Police Department officer arrived, and here's
a quote from them. Immediately after the APD officer got
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shot as he got out of his vehicle, an assailant
in the woods opened fire, shooting the APD officer in
the neck area. According to court documents, the other gunman
also opened fire at the unarmed Department of Homeland Security
correctional officer. In total, the assailants shot approximately twenty to
thirty rounds at the correctional officers. Police later found two
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AR fifteen style rifles and spent casings in the near
by woods. When police rounded up some of the people
that didn't get away, seven suspects who were dressed in
black military style clothing, some had on body armor, some
were covered in mud, some were armed, some had radios.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Just to quick aside, you remember when the mainstream media
was telling us Antifa doesn't really exist during the post
George Floyd violence, for instance in Portland, or on a
hell of a lot of violence in Portland, by the way,
this not being reported on the same topic.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Or have been told over and over about you know,
organized white militias who are angry about the other taking
their jobs or whatever are going to do this. But
it hasn't happened yet where you've had this sort of
an organized attack where people are in combat clothing and
shooting unarmed officers and everything. That is something. The officer
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who is hit in the neck survived. Ten suspects were
charged with attempted murder. Good, and I'll just read a
little more from the Washington Examiner. This is the radical
violent tip of the protests against the Trump administration's enforcement
of immigration law. Other examples of recent radicalization include far
left Free Palestine extremist who is accused of killing the
staff members. They goes through the list of all that violence.
(25:45):
Beyond that, of course, there have already been riots in
LA and other protests that turned violent. This has been
an alarming plunge in the number of Democrats who say
they're proud to be American.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Back in twenty fifteen when brought Obama's present, eighty percent
of Democrats said they were extremely were very proud to
be American. That number is now less than half of that. Anyway,
Byron York, building the case that Democrats are very unhappy
with America and at least a small percentage, and I,
you know, I want to make it clear. I believe
it's a small percentage, but are willing to be very
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very violent.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Right Hey, Michael get As nine. How much news coverage
have you heard of this? Did you eat very little? Cursory?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I you know, I missed a lot of news over
Fourth of July weekend, like a lot of people did.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I didn't take in my normal news flow.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
But this hasn't been the lead story everywhere that you
had dozens of armed in combat gear people lying in
wait for ICE officers and.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Willing to kill them. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah, it's only because the man pulled through that it
isn't enormous news. But yeah, it's been undersold as a
news story. It's been the reporting has been cursory at
best because they're uncomfortable with it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
This is from San Francisco clip ninety.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Michael, this just happened, I think yesterday. That is a
mob of people trying to fight the cops, hurl bicycles
at them, trying to get You heard the one cops saying,
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get away from my gun, get off my gun. And
interestingly enough, they were many of them were clad in
kafias and an anti ICE thing.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well that seems odd, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
No, that's back to what I've been saying for the
longest time. And I think some of you think I'm
paranoid or imagining it. It's the permanent omni cause it's
the radical Marxist desired to overthrow Western civilization. So you
have people in caffias trying to fight cops or tempt
them into shooting somebody, as that other person was talking
about in the name of Ice. Well, were in your
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Palestinian garb, and the rest of them were clad in
Antifa gear.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
All black.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
And once again it was predominantly not exclusively by any means,
but predominantly angry, militant young women screaming at the cops
over and over again. My god, young American women are
so off track. Let's hear Senator Mark Wayne Mullen here, Michael,
they were.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
In tactical gear.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
They had devices that would block the signal of cell
phone so they couldn't be tracked. When the police responded,
they ambushed them as they coordinated attack. Now, if this
was any other situation, Democrats at very least would be
calling for gun control. They have said absolutely nothing. Why
because they're the ones that have fanned the flames for
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this to happen, and they're the ones that's called literally
calling on blood. Axios put out that a Democrat politician
is calling for those two up their activities and spill
blood when it comes to defending against ice.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah. I was just reading that Actuos article.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
It has all kinds of quotes in there, most of
them anonymous from various Democrats talking about how their constituents
are saying it's time to get violent.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Here's what I would respond to, that those people are
way too online. Yeah, you look at the actual numbers,
Look at gallop poling, not Twitter, not blue Sky or
whatever the hell that the social media outlet is. They
are hearing from the most vocal and militant among their constituents.
(29:37):
Why not try popularism, Why not advocate for policies that
are popular. These are the same people, I'm sure who
are screeching that trans women are women and transgender girls
should be allowed to participate in sports. They represent just
a small, small group of lunatics. Wow, why don't have
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actual representatives who think, yes, this is my constituents.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I must listen to them. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
When is the mainstream of the Democratic Party gonna learn
to ignore the crazies and try to win elections and
try to win elections again when it completely drags them down?
I hope not too many people are heard or killed
in the meantime.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Right, Yeah, these are real people, man. That is quite
a story. And god, you talk about underreported.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
If that, if the politics were reversed on that, oh
my god, that would be that would still be the
only story we'd be in like day four of it
being the lead story. It would have pushed the Texas
drownings off of the front page. Right, some right wing
militia had attacked the planning parrohood. Yeah, an immigrants rights
center or anything like that. Yeah, oh my god, they'd
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be going perk. Any thoughts on any of this text
line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Well still rare.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Study showcases are on the rise, and tumoric suspected role
has increased markedly. I think when people hear liver damage,
they might think of, okay, alcohol could be playing a role,
maybe a set of minifit, But supplements, I.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Don't think that comes to top of mind for people.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Because the misconception is that herbal products are absolutely innocent.
Turmeric along with black pepper that increases the levels of
this ingredient in the blood.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
That I hadn't heard this. I just jumped on the
tumor had suggestion of someone jumped on the turmeric bandwick
like a week ago. That's that for your liver, that hole,
it's natural, So it's good for you. When the Indians
knew better.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Or something, what yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Coming up next, our prominent democrat says generation Z is
the useful idiot generation. And it's more than just contempt
for the young. It's plus school discipline or discipline in
schools is making a comeback all around the country. Is
one more aspect of wokedom is rolled back.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Thank god.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
I can't wait to hear that. And there's an Epstein development.
Trump was asked about it in his two hour press
conference yesterday. Also Pam Bondy, so we'll check in on that.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I just got a news alert that the CEO of
X stepping down the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I have to look into that.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
So speaking of technology, seconds ago we learned that what's
in your medicine cabinet is killing you.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Meanwhile, your appliances are spying on you.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
A great piece this happens to be in the New
York Times is not a conspiracy theory. Many of the
devices living in your home are quietly collecting towering heaps
of information about you. Your TV, your doorbell, your security system,
your thermostat, your fridge.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Even your ear buds are involved.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
And some of that data may be shared, analyzed, and
sold to the highest bitter hundreds of times a day
by organizations you've never heard of. You've pointed out many times, Jack,
that a lot of products seem a great deal cheaper
than they used to be. It must just be an
advance of technology. Well, part of it is that, but
part of it is they're subsidized by selling your data.
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When you sign on for the first time, you agree
to all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
The first several big screen TVs I had, like everybody,
there's no software involved.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You didn't log in.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Now you do, and so they get all that data
from you, tons of data in that Being able to
sell that data is what's lowered the price of big
screen TVs.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
That drives me nuts.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
If I want to watch TV and you got to
update some app just makes me insane. I don't want
any updates of I just want to turn on my
TV and watch whatever I'm going to watch.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
So the story of smart home devices in your personal
data is one chapter a much larger tale of the
immense and largely hidden data industry. There are more than
one thousand companies in the US alone, including the companies
that make or sell many of the products you own,
that are devoted to gathering your personal data. These companies
collect and sift through as much data as they can
scrounge in order to create a unique profile of every consumer.
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They package those profiles and sell them to all sorts
of advertisers, research firms, banks, credit card companies, home healthcare companies,
car insurance companies, landlords, government agency, law enforcement, essentially almost.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Anyone willing to pay. Do they get banged for their buck?
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I've kind of hoped that this would go away when
it turned out and doesn't really do its any good.
Like advertising went from TV and radio to like Facebook
and other places there for a number of years, like
really big, and then they realized we're not getting much
banged for a buck, and we went back to radio
and TV to a great extent.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Yeah, I think in a way you've answered to your
own question. Because it is the free market. The cost
of this stuff, getting this information is very reasonable given
the amount of data they collect, and they can give
you detailed or give detailed information about you from democratic
I'm sorry, demographic info. I'm trying to hurry personal activities,
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life preferences, politics, travel, banking, healthcare, consumer goods, services, just
everything that might be useful about you.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
I can certainly see how knowing what shows I watch,
how long I hang with them before I tune out,
and all that would be. We're worth a lot of
money to a bunch of different people. Your smart devices
are spying on you all the time.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I'm strong and getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm not happy with President Putin at all, but this
is something that would have never happened about.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
With President This is a war that was never going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Said more weapons to Ukrain.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
We're going to search some more weapons.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We have to.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
They have to be able to defend themselves.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
They're getting hit very hard.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Now, including overnight the story that it includes patriot missile batteries,
and we'll get into that in just a little bit.
But here's here's the big turn. And most people seem
to think Trump's never talked this way about Putin before.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We get a lot of vote thrown at us by
Puttin for you one another. True, it's very nice all
the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Do you want to say that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'm looking at it. Yeah, No, I'm looking at the
Senator is passing and passed us very very tough sanctions. Yeah,
I'm looking at it. It's an optional bill. It's totally
at my option. They pass it totally at my option
and to terminate totally at my option, and I'm looking
at it very strongly.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
So, Uh, first of all, the fact that every news
outlet isn't playing that clip unbleeped is amazing to me
because it's the President of the United States talking about
the issue of war and peace in the United States involvement.
So having his full statement, because it carries more weight, seems.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Like, you know, that's necessary to me.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
But I mean not just to be able to say
bulls on the air, but the president. I mean, it
has more impact. And the president talking about how involved
were to be in a war is a big deal.
Any who won't get off on that. That's definitely the
most forceful anti Putin talk ever out of Donald Trump.
(02:11):
And I don't know if you saw over the weekend
after he got off the phone with Putin, because it
happened over fourth of July weekend. He was walking across
the White House lawn and he asked he was asked
how the phone call what with Putine?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
He said, not good? Not good, I mean shaking his head.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
So he's clearly, for whatever reason, finally now reached the
conclusion that Putin's full of crap in terms of wanton
piece or working toward peace or anything like that. And
last night, and I feel like I've said this fifteen
times in the last month. Last night Russia launched the
(02:44):
largest attack of the entire war on Ukraine, with seven
hundred drones and thirteen missiles, attacking all kinds of different
civilian structures and people. They were bombing recruiting stations, so
Putin knows where people are in line to sign up
to go fight, and he's bombing nose and killing people
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while he's stand in line.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Right, It's all at war, definitely, and I'm a little
disappointed it took Trump this long to get there. As
I said yesterday, I don't think he comprehends ideological extremists
or ideology in general really, unless it's you know, his
own ideology. But the idea that the moas in Iran
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they're not interested in a prosperous and happy society. They're
interested in Islamism taking over the globe. And Putin isn't
interested in peace and prosperity. He's interested in restoring the
Russian Empire and becoming some sort of a latter day
Peter the Great. But Trump just doesn't get that and
it bothers me also that he seems at least half
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frustrated with Putin because Putin bulessed him. It's a personal thing,
as opposed to recognizing that Putin's aims are diametrically opposed
to the US's aims in Europe and the world, and
that's why you oppose him. On the other hand, he's
right all the things he's saying right now, He's absolutely right.
(04:12):
Putin has no desire for peace, and he's full of crap. Well,
he's a con man, he's a KGB operative.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
So also happening over the fourth of July weekend was
a pause in US supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That got a lot of news.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It was reported with the assumption that that was Donald
Trump's order, which you would assume to pause the the
sending weapons to Ukraine. And and you know, there's a
usual conversation about that Trump is a lackey of Putin,
or you know, is willing to give away Ukraine or
(04:50):
blah blah blah, whatever it is. So then but Trump
was asked about that pause having announced the night before,
So Monday night he announced, no, no, no, we're sending We're
sending weapons. That we have to defend themselves. He was
asked about it in this cabinet meeting slash press conference yesterday.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Last week, depending on paused some shipments of weapons to Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Did you approve of that?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
All?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
We wanted to put defensive weapons because Putin he's not
treating human beings right, He's killing too many people. So
we're sending some defensive weapons to Ukraine, and I've approved that.
So who ordered the pause last week?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
What didn't you tell me?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's a question ahead. Who ordered the pause last week?
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
So that started a lot of conversations, obviously. I mean,
that's a hell of an interesting thing, right, And he
didn't need to say that, but he did, sitting right
there with Pete Hegzeth to his left and Marco Rubio
to his right. So I've been I follow a lot
(05:57):
of podcasts, so does Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And everything like that.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
People to get really in the weeds this stuff, and
the name Eldridge Colby comes up a lot from the
people that you know, really are into this. Eldridge Colby's
served in the first Trump administration and he's and he's
in this one also, and he is the national security.
He's a national security policy professional that was brought in
to deal with that issue for Trump first term in
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this term and is currently the Undersecretary of Defense for policy.
He is the leading guy and apparently has a lot
of sway in the push to stop worrying about the
Middle East. It's all about China, which I agree with
to a great extent. Stop worrying about other countries. China
is our main enemy. Being able to stop China from
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taking Taiwan is the number one thing. And it's suspected
that he through Hegzeth or he on his own or
Hexath agreed with him and was okay with it or whatever,
is the guy that stopped the shipment of weapons to
Ukraine and was hoping that would stay because he's worried
about our supplies of patriot missile batteries, in particular because
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it's the best technology out there for shooting down missiles
and drones and all that sort of stuff, and we're
now down to quite a low level. In The New
York Times is reporting on that today, and so that's
its own story.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, an important one. Certainly.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
This is a great example of competing goods that it's
not you're right, they're wrong. That is half and a half.
No's it's competing needs. I'm glad for Colby's voice because
you know, certainly in isolation, the things he's saying are
absolutely true and important to be said. Weather you know,
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halting shipment at arms, that it's like already on the
Polish with the Polish border.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Ready to go into Ukraine, and already that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And we already had committed this stuff. We'd already said
we would give you this stuff. So as going back
on a commitment also, and if it's being done by
you know, I guess the bucks got to stop with
hegzaeth right.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If it's being done.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Against the president's wishes or intent, that's a serious problem.
But anyway, into the supplies of some of these weapons,
as the New York Times right rights, As mister Trump's
disillusionment with the Russian leader was building, Pentagon officials were
growing increasingly concerned about the potential depletion of the American
stockpile of weapons, especially after Israel attacked Iran, you know,
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because Iran might be coming after US officials in Washington
were worried that American bases in the region could be targeted,
especially if the United States joined Israel in striking Iran's
nuclear sites that would require more arms to defend American troops.
The Pentagon also rushed additional patriot anti missile batteries from
South Korea to the Gulf region, as military planners projected
how many patriot interceptors might be needed in a long conflict.
(08:54):
So we're like sending as much stuff as we got
from other places to.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The Middle East.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And heg Zeth and certainly Eldridge Colby might be thinking
more about China if China decides to jump ugly here.
It's a reasonable question and a conversation that should be had.
But the president's got to be in the loop.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I hope he is.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Uh. Yes, Yeah, that answer of his was a little
cryptic and surprising.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I don't know why he did tell me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
What was interesting is and then this is you know,
classic Trump, It's the way he operates.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
His initial answer.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
He clearly didn't want to throw somebody on the bus
and say that I didn't approve that he was dodging. Yeah,
but he's angry enough about it, I think, or pissed
off enough of that personally, Like it is, you know,
got to him personally that somebody did something without his
acknowledgment that you know, pressed on it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
He said it. He went ahead and said it. Yeah,
well it wasn't me.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
You know, what I find myself curious about is not
the momentary issue, as important as it is, but.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Let's look down the line and go more big picture.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
What is it about the current state of our arms manufacturing,
in our arms procurement that that has left us in
a situation where, for instance, various war planners and simulation
runners have said we would exhaust in two weeks our
weaponry that we would need to defend against China or
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you know, defend Taiwan against China, and it would take
two years to resupply it, or twenty years or whatever
it is, depending on which weapons.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
System you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Can we think creatively and aggressively about rectifying that? To me,
that is the bottom line issue that we are not
nearly self sufficient enough for dangerous times, having just come
off of a multi decade period of relative calm, peace
and prosperity. I mean, don't get me started about shipbuilding
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place it's pathetic, But likewise, the manufacturer Patriot missiles and
stuff that ought to be a national emergency, and I
hope Trump's looking into it.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
And so there's this big sanctions bill Lindsey Graham and
others who were behind sanctions on Russia that Trump also
talked about yesterday. But Trump said, yeah, I'm looking looking
real strong at that. And it's written in such a
way that he can implement the sanctions on Russia.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
On his own. We just played that.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Oh that was part of it. Okay, I was reading.
We can implement the sanctions on his own, and then
he can.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Stop those very good. I listen every day.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
And he can stop them on his own. So that's
a message to putin it. Hey, you better, you know,
you better treat me right, right?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Do you have more on this topic because I've got oh,
look at the time to come almost trite, but guy's
falling out of windows in Russia.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That's a good story. If you haven't heard that, a
couple of couple of new ones and they signal something
is going on. We'll get to that.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It's amazing how many people who get fired by Putin
then fall out of windows or have heart attacks or
commit suicide. They really need to look into windows safety
in Nusha top priority, among other things.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
On the way, President Trump with harsh words for Vladimir Putin,
saying he's not happy with the Russian leader. President Trump
now saying the US will resume weaponship ins to Ukraine
after some were recently paused by the Pentagon, and with
the head of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Heiksat sitting
right next to the President, the President insisting he didn't
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know who ordered that pause.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, that's a story, man, I think, And this just
in HEGZ was asked about it. The Defense secretary he
says he did not inform the White House before authorizing
the pause. Two bits of news there. One, he authorized
the pause, so it doesn't matter if Eldridge Colby was
advocating for it. The sect deaf authorized it. And he
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says he did not tell Trump about it, which it
seems it's like a big deal to me.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
But yeah, it would be a bigger deal if it
were not for the fact that the Trump administration, the
last one and this one, operate differently than others. And
because they're a little more unconventional. I think people aren't
sure exactly where their boundaries are. So it seems to
me it was Hegzeth and Colby saying, I wonder how
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much autonomy we do have over here. We're running out
of these patriot missiles. I say, we pause shipments and
talk about.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Yeah, it's certainly if they really believe that to their core,
that that's a mistake for us to be giving Ukraine
this many weapons we need to be prepared for China
and other problems. It would definitely be one of those
I'd rather get forgiveness and permission sort of situations.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I might do the same thing, right, Yeah, So I'm
not that troubled by it.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh, I just wonder if they survive. I just wonder
if Trump it keeps them around.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Oh, I think so. I think so.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I don't think it was a betrayal. It was just
going a little too far. Anyway, we'll see. Perhaps you'll
Trump will treat them like Putin treats his allies who
are on the outs. This is almost like worn out,
but I think it's worth revisiting now and again. First
Russian Transport Minister Roman Sterovhoit, who was fired on Monday,
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has shot himself, according to the official Newnits Agency. Perhaps
the disappointment and humiliation of the loss of his kosh
gig was too much for the man, and he decided
to end its life.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's a tragedy. Tragedy.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Indeed, when I heard that, I thought, did he shoot himself?
Did Putin have someone shoot him? Did they sit down
in the car with him and say, here's what's going
to happen to your family. If you don't shoot yourself,
we'll let you decide exactly.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
And a couple of days later, Andre Batalov, the vice
president of Russia's national oil pipeline, has been found dead
after allegedly falling out of a window of his home
in suburban Moscow.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Too much the suicide, but the claims of adult falling
out of windows.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Like all the damn time.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yeah, Russia really needs to make national window safety a campaign.
Better glass, I don't know, awareness, Maybe an area of rugs.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So the floor isn't so slick, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
As we've pointed out many times in case you don't
already know, the absurdity is the point. The unlikelyhood that
you would fall out of a window is the.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Point, right exactly, Putin says I can kill you. I
will make a hilariously idiotic claim about how you died
and nobody's gonna say nothing.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Mont the news will report it with a straight face.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
And this news outlet happens to have a little recap
of the unexplained deaths of high profile Russian figures just
since vlad Putin invaded Ukraine in twenty twenty two. You
got and anatotally Garashchenko, former head of Russian Aviation Research,
died after reportedly accidentally falling down numerous flights of stairs.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Boy, you fall down one flight of stairs, you make
that turn at the bottom, then fall down another flight.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That's unfortunate.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Here's a guy named sum Gorkin, editor in chief of
the major state newspaper Blah Blah Blah, died suddenly after
appearing to suffocate. According to the paper he used to helm.
Here's an energy executive died after falling overboard from a speedboat.
Appeared to suffocate. Is he just stopped breathing? It was
weird right after we put this eye dropper full of
stuff in his throat. Here's in a chairman of the
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board of Russia's largest private oil company died after falling
out of a sixth story window of a hospital.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Slipped and fell.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
A top manager of giant oil company found dead after
allegedly receiving a hangover treatment involving toad venom. That one's creative.
Here's a guy found hanged outside a villa. Here's a
guy found dead in his apartment along with the bodies
of his wife and daughter. Murder suicide. I'm sorry, we've
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run out of time. There are eight more.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'm next to a big window. I could be walking
over here. There's a bin NFL. Oh my god, careful Jack.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Dead, or I got a really bad hangover and I
try a little toad venom and it goes wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
That can happen. And again, that list is just the
last two and a half years. Has really something that
gets away of that going on, Armstrong and gety. The
heat was brutal all around the country. For the first
haiven years.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Ice cream truck drivers sold more ice cream than weed
the first eyes.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Wow, I guess that's a thing. Huh, ice cream driver's
selling weed. Yeah, i'd heard of that now and again
we've done that story, you know, a handful of times
through the years, but evidently it's so assumed in urban
areas that really running joke. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Wow, I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I'm glad I found that out in case my kid
decides to go h the ice cream truck every day.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Dad, I'm always going to the ice cream truck. Oh,
I love my ice cream. Oh look, I gotta apologize. Idiot, stupid, stupid, stupid.
Last segment, we were talking about all the people falling
out of windows and mysteriously dying in Russia just in
the last two and a half years, and the numbers
quet astounding because these are like important movers and shakers people.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Right, And you wouldn't think you'd become that big a
deal as a businessman or a politician yet be he's
so unable to stop yourself from tripping and falling out
of a window.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Well, and it's a thing among dictators that occasionally they
will thin the herd just to make sure nobody gets
too much power end or to keep everybody on edge.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't think this is that. I don't think so either.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
For it to be that many people of that much
prominence in the last couple of years suggests an insecurity
potent's feeling insecure about his rule and or their actual
rumblings going on.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
That was my ultimate point. I didn't get to it.
Last segment, I apologize deeply and humbly. Let's all move
on with our lives.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Before getting to something disturbing starting to feel optimistic, or
if you were feeling starting to feel optimistic, I'll bring.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You back down, all right. That's how I feel like.
It's my job.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Somebody sent me this hilarious meme. Who knows my vacation story.
Vacations are expensed. It's somebody standing there on the beach
looking at the ocean. Vacations are expensive, But how can
you put a price tag on your kids being ungrateful
in a different city?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
That is exactly right, Oh boy, I gotta admit.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
I mean, ultimately, at the end of the day, even now,
just a couple of days back from vacation, I have
positive feelings about it. I think they'll remember the rest
of their lives. Blah blah blah blah blah. But there
were moments during the vacation where I thought I could
have bought a decent used car for what this vacation costs.
And you're both miserable. What the hell next time? I'm
(19:50):
just staying home?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Wow? Are leaving you home? Yeah? Exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I did think that too, And that might even be
true with my high school or he might be on
vacationing with mom and dad. I didn't vacation with mom
and dad when I was in high school. I was working.
I had other things to do, and I think if
they had asked me, it would have been weird. So
I don't know differ, Different people are different.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
So yeah, at one point in our childhoods, my parents
went with the on this was possible. Sometimes not all
the time, but you can bring a friend and so. Yeah,
and so there would be family time. Then independent time
is you know, the birds were leaving the nest bit
by bit. So we didn't take like long, exotic expensive vacations.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
We just like drove from Chicago to New Jersey, right right.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
If I ever meet Elon Musk, I want to ask
him why he makes Twitter the way he makes it
in some ways, as the thing I was about to
talk to just disappeared and it makes me very very angry,
let me find it here quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Standing by. Yeah, I hope this doesn't take me too long. Oh,
our friend Tim Sanderfer did retweet this, which is pretty good.
Have you heard this?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
So you remember that bridge the Francis Scott Key Bridge
that big boat plowed into and knocked it down course.
That was a year and four months ago that that
bridge collapsed. We still they still haven't started rebuilding a
new bridge. In fact, they just started yesterday demolishing the
old remains. And the point was made and Tim sender
(21:21):
for being a libertarian small government guy. It only took
us four hundred and ten days to build the Empire
State Building in nineteen thirty. We've become less capable drowning
ourselves in red tape and regulation. China would have built
ten bridges by now.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
True. Yes, yeah, why aren't more people bothered by that?
We had the story yesterday about what is.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It, Katie, one building permit in Palisades, Yeah, after the
wire so far and however long that's been.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
One Yeah, one single family home on the six month
anniversary of the Palisades and the Eatans fire.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
If those four people weren't burned out of their homes
and their lives and chaos, they really ought to, you know,
have a march through the streets of La or or
form a coalition or something. They've been so maltreated by
the government of California in La County and the rest
of it assist it's horrifying. While Gavin Newsom is doing
press conference, is talking.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
About we're making real progress, We're freeing up the red tape.
I'll be running for president soon, look at me. Okay,
So here we go.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
This is byron Ne York in the Washington Examiner, the
headline being disturbing glimpses of Democratic anger, and I'll just
read the first part of it as it's written, because.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's pretty good. This is in quotes.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Our own base is telling us that we're not doing
good enough, said one Democratic lawmaker, quoted in an Axios
article that came out over the weekend that I didn't read.
Some of them have suggested what we really need to
do is be willing to get shot. They're talking about
protests at US Immigration and Customs enforcement facilities, ice that
(22:58):
there needs to be blood to grab the attention of
press and the public. Another lawmaker told Axios that constituents
say civility isn't working and to get ready for violence
to fight to protect our democracy. Another Democrat said it's
like the Roman Coliseum. People just want more and more
of this spectacle. Byron York, writing obviously These are Democrats
(23:19):
who have moved beyond the defeat them at the ballot
box stage of politics, and even beyond the protest by
civil disobedience stage. They're ready to turn a political fight
into a physical fight. Violence is already going on in Texas.
Over the weekend of militant group broadly allied with Democratic
views launched what officials called a coordinated attack on the
ICE one ICE facility that we talked about. According to
(23:43):
court documents, it started at about ten thirty PM when
a group of ten to twelve Antifa radicals dressed in
all black began shooting fireworks towards the building. Some began
to vandalize parked cars. When unarmed ICE workers called nine
to one one. A Police Department officer arrived, and here's
a quote from them. Immediately after the APD officer got
(24:06):
shot as he got out of his vehicle, an assailant
in the woods opened fire, shooting the APD officer in
the neck area. According to court documents, the other gunman
also opened fire at the unarmed Department of Homeland Security
correctional officer. In total, the assailants shot approximately twenty to
thirty rounds at the correctional officers. Police later found two
(24:28):
AR fifteen style rifles and spent casings in the near
by woods. When police rounded up some of the people
that didn't get away, seven suspects who were dressed in
black military style clothing, some had on body armor, some
were covered in mud, some were armed, some had radios.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Just to quick aside, you remember when the mainstream media
was telling us Antifa doesn't really exist during the post
George Floyd violence, for instance in Portland, or on a
hell of a lot of violence in Portland, by the way,
this not being reported on the same topic.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Or have been told over and over about you know,
organized white militias who are angry about the other taking
their jobs or whatever are going to do this. But
it hasn't happened yet where you've had this sort of
an organized attack where people are in combat clothing and
shooting unarmed officers and everything. That is something. The officer
(25:22):
who is hit in the neck survived. Ten suspects were
charged with attempted murder. Good, and I'll just read a
little more from the Washington Examiner. This is the radical
violent tip of the protests against the Trump administration's enforcement
of immigration law. Other examples of recent radicalization include far
left Free Palestine extremist who is accused of killing the
staff members. They goes through the list of all that violence.
(25:45):
Beyond that, of course, there have already been riots in
LA and other protests that turned violent. This has been
an alarming plunge in the number of Democrats who say
they're proud to be American.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Back in twenty fifteen when brought Obama's present, eighty percent
of Democrats said they were extremely were very proud to
be American. That number is now less than half of that. Anyway,
Byron York, building the case that Democrats are very unhappy
with America and at least a small percentage, and I,
you know, I want to make it clear. I believe
it's a small percentage, but are willing to be very
(26:21):
very violent.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Right Hey, Michael get As nine. How much news coverage
have you heard of this? Did you eat very little? Cursory?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I you know, I missed a lot of news over
Fourth of July weekend, like a lot of people did.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I didn't take in my normal news flow.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
But this hasn't been the lead story everywhere that you
had dozens of armed in combat gear people lying in
wait for ICE officers and.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Willing to kill them. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah, it's only because the man pulled through that it
isn't enormous news. But yeah, it's been undersold as a
news story. It's been the reporting has been cursory at
best because they're uncomfortable with it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
This is from San Francisco clip ninety.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Michael, this just happened, I think yesterday. That is a
mob of people trying to fight the cops, hurl bicycles
at them, trying to get You heard the one cops saying,
(27:27):
get away from my gun, get off my gun. And
interestingly enough, they were many of them were clad in
kafias and an anti ICE thing.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well that seems odd, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
No, that's back to what I've been saying for the
longest time. And I think some of you think I'm
paranoid or imagining it. It's the permanent omni cause it's
the radical Marxist desired to overthrow Western civilization. So you
have people in caffias trying to fight cops or tempt
them into shooting somebody, as that other person was talking
about in the name of Ice. Well, were in your
(28:03):
Palestinian garb, and the rest of them were clad in
Antifa gear.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
All black.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
And once again it was predominantly not exclusively by any means,
but predominantly angry, militant young women screaming at the cops
over and over again. My god, young American women are
so off track. Let's hear Senator Mark Wayne Mullen here, Michael,
they were.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
In tactical gear.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
They had devices that would block the signal of cell
phone so they couldn't be tracked. When the police responded,
they ambushed them as they coordinated attack. Now, if this
was any other situation, Democrats at very least would be
calling for gun control. They have said absolutely nothing. Why
because they're the ones that have fanned the flames for
(28:50):
this to happen, and they're the ones that's called literally
calling on blood. Axios put out that a Democrat politician
is calling for those two up their activities and spill
blood when it comes to defending against ice.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah. I was just reading that Actuos article.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
It has all kinds of quotes in there, most of
them anonymous from various Democrats talking about how their constituents
are saying it's time to get violent.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Here's what I would respond to, that those people are
way too online. Yeah, you look at the actual numbers,
Look at gallop poling, not Twitter, not blue Sky or
whatever the hell that the social media outlet is. They
are hearing from the most vocal and militant among their constituents.
(29:37):
Why not try popularism, Why not advocate for policies that
are popular. These are the same people, I'm sure who
are screeching that trans women are women and transgender girls
should be allowed to participate in sports. They represent just
a small, small group of lunatics. Wow, why don't have
(30:00):
actual representatives who think, yes, this is my constituents.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I must listen to them. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
When is the mainstream of the Democratic Party gonna learn
to ignore the crazies and try to win elections and
try to win elections again when it completely drags them down?
I hope not too many people are heard or killed
in the meantime.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Right, Yeah, these are real people, man. That is quite
a story. And god, you talk about underreported.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
If that, if the politics were reversed on that, oh
my god, that would be that would still be the
only story we'd be in like day four of it
being the lead story. It would have pushed the Texas
drownings off of the front page. Right, some right wing
militia had attacked the planning parrohood. Yeah, an immigrants rights
center or anything like that. Yeah, oh my god, they'd
(30:49):
be going perk. Any thoughts on any of this text
line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Well still rare.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Study showcases are on the rise, and tumoric suspected role
has increased markedly. I think when people hear liver damage,
they might think of, okay, alcohol could be playing a role,
maybe a set of minifit, But supplements, I.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Don't think that comes to top of mind for people.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Because the misconception is that herbal products are absolutely innocent.
Turmeric along with black pepper that increases the levels of
this ingredient in the blood.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
That I hadn't heard this. I just jumped on the
tumor had suggestion of someone jumped on the turmeric bandwick
like a week ago. That's that for your liver, that hole,
it's natural, So it's good for you. When the Indians
knew better.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Or something, what yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Coming up next, our prominent democrat says generation Z is
the useful idiot generation. And it's more than just contempt
for the young. It's plus school discipline or discipline in
schools is making a comeback all around the country. Is
one more aspect of wokedom is rolled back.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Thank god.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
I can't wait to hear that. And there's an Epstein development.
Trump was asked about it in his two hour press
conference yesterday. Also Pam Bondy, so we'll check in on that.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I just got a news alert that the CEO of
X stepping down the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I have to look into that.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
So speaking of technology, seconds ago we learned that what's
in your medicine cabinet is killing you.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Meanwhile, your appliances are spying on you.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
A great piece this happens to be in the New
York Times is not a conspiracy theory. Many of the
devices living in your home are quietly collecting towering heaps
of information about you. Your TV, your doorbell, your security system,
your thermostat, your fridge.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Even your ear buds are involved.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
And some of that data may be shared, analyzed, and
sold to the highest bitter hundreds of times a day
by organizations you've never heard of. You've pointed out many times, Jack,
that a lot of products seem a great deal cheaper
than they used to be. It must just be an
advance of technology. Well, part of it is that, but
part of it is they're subsidized by selling your data.
(33:20):
When you sign on for the first time, you agree
to all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
The first several big screen TVs I had, like everybody,
there's no software involved.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You didn't log in.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Now you do, and so they get all that data
from you, tons of data in that Being able to
sell that data is what's lowered the price of big
screen TVs.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
That drives me nuts.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
If I want to watch TV and you got to
update some app just makes me insane. I don't want
any updates of I just want to turn on my
TV and watch whatever I'm going to watch.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
So the story of smart home devices in your personal
data is one chapter a much larger tale of the
immense and largely hidden data industry. There are more than
one thousand companies in the US alone, including the companies
that make or sell many of the products you own,
that are devoted to gathering your personal data. These companies
collect and sift through as much data as they can
scrounge in order to create a unique profile of every consumer.
(34:14):
They package those profiles and sell them to all sorts
of advertisers, research firms, banks, credit card companies, home healthcare companies,
car insurance companies, landlords, government agency, law enforcement, essentially almost.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Anyone willing to pay. Do they get banged for their buck?
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I've kind of hoped that this would go away when
it turned out and doesn't really do its any good.
Like advertising went from TV and radio to like Facebook
and other places there for a number of years, like
really big, and then they realized we're not getting much
banged for a buck, and we went back to radio
and TV to a great extent.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Yeah, I think in a way you've answered to your
own question. Because it is the free market. The cost
of this stuff, getting this information is very reasonable given
the amount of data they collect, and they can give
you detailed or give detailed information about you from democratic
I'm sorry, demographic info. I'm trying to hurry personal activities,
(35:10):
life preferences, politics, travel, banking, healthcare, consumer goods, services, just
everything that might be useful about you.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
I can certainly see how knowing what shows I watch,
how long I hang with them before I tune out,
and all that would be. We're worth a lot of
money to a bunch of different people. Your smart devices
are spying on you all the time.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
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